[English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Walter W. Skeat]@TWC D-Link bookEnglish Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day CHAPTER XII 15/37
The fogger sa, she ha the black sap; but the grosher sa, she have an ill dent. _R._ She's a clever girl, but always in troubles with the collar-maker and thatcher; she is always eating gooseberries and snails.
The man at the chandler's shop says she has a consumption: but the grocer says she's out of her senses. _T._ Why, ah! tother da she fared stounded: she pluck'd the pur from the back-stock, and copped it agin the balk of the douw-pollar, and barnt it; and then she hulled [it] at the thackster, and hart his weeson, and huckle-bone.
There was northing but cadders in the douw-pollar, and no douws: and so, arter she had barnt the balk, and the door-stall, and the plancher, she run into the par-yard, thru the pytle, and then swounded behinn'd a sight o' gotches o' beergood. _S._ Why, aye! the other day she appeared struck mad: she snatched the poker from the back of the stove, and flung it against the beam of the pigeon-house, and burnt it; and then she throwed it at the thatcher, and hurt his throat and hip-bone. There were no pigeons in the pigeon-house, and nothing but jack-daws; and so, after she had burned the beam, and the door-frame and the floor, she ran into the cowyard, through the small field, and fainted behind several pitchers of yeast. _R._ Ah, the shummaker told me o' that rum rig; and his nevvey sa, that the beer-good was fystey; and that Nutty was so swelter'd, that she ha got a pain in spade-bones.
The bladethacker wou'd ha gin har some doctor's gear in a beaker; but he sa she'll niver moize agin. _R._ Aye, the shoemaker told me of that comical trick; and his nephew says, that the yeast was musty; and that Ursula [was so] smothered, that she has got a pain in her bones.
The thatcher would have given her some doctor's medicine in a tumbler; but he says, she will never recover. Notes .-- Pronounce _du_ like E._dew_._Snasty_, pron.
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