I couldn't make no sense of mending it myself; for I'd iled it and I'd biled it, and then I couldn't do more with it." _Cocker-up_, to spoil; to gloss over with an air of truth.

"You see this here chap of hers, he's cockered-up some story about having to goo away somewheres up into the sheeres; and I tell her she's no call to be so cluck over it; and for my part I dunno but what I be very glad an't, for he was a chap as was always a-cokeing about the cupboards, and cogging her out of a Sunday." (_The sheeres_, any shire of England except Kent and Sussex; _call_, reason; _cluck_, out of spirits; _coke_, to peep; _cog_, to entice.) _Joy_, a jay.

"Poor old Master Crockham, he's in terrible order, surel{'y}! The meece have taken his peas, and the joys have got at his beans, and the snags have spilt all his lettuce." (_Order_, bad temper; _meece_, mice; _snags_, snails; _spilt_, spoilt.) _Kiddle_, to tickle.

"Those thunder-bugs did kiddle me so that I couldn't keep still no hows." (_Thunder-bug_, a midge.) _Lawyer_, a long bramble full of thorns, so called because, "when once they gets a holt an ye, ye do{a}nt easy get shut of 'em." _Leetle_, a diminutive of little.

"I never see one of these here gurt men there's s'much talk about in the peapers, only once, and that was up at Smiffle Show adunnamany years agoo.