Prime minister, they told me he was, up at London; a leetle, lear, miserable, skinny-looking chap as ever I see.

'Why,' I says, 'we do{a}nt count our minister to be much, but he's a deal primer-looking than what yourn be.'" (_Gurt_, great; _Smiffle_, Smithfield; _adunnamany_, I don't know how many; _lear_, thin, hungry; _see_, saw.) _Sarment_, a sermon.

"I likes a good long sarment, I doos; so as when you wakes up it ain't all over." _Tempory_ (temporary), slight, badly finished.

"Who be I?
Why, I be John Carbury, that's who I be! And who be you?
Why, you ain't a man at all, you ain't! You be naun but a poor tempory creetur run up by contract, that's what you be!" _Tot_, a bush; a tuft of grass.

"There warn't any grass at all when we fust come here; naun but a passel o' gurt old tots and tussicks.
You see there was one of these here new-fashioned men had had the farm, and he'd properly starved the land and the labourers, and the cattle and everything, without it was hisself." (_Passel_, parcel; _tussicks_, tufts of rank grass.) _Twort_ (for _thwart_), pert and saucy.