hot; _riggin_, roof over the open hearth; _whilk_, which.
_Grien_, yearn, long; _hafflins steeks_, half shuts; _cruizy_, oil-lamp; _bleer_, bedim (the sight); _restit ingle_, made up fire; _dow_, can; _tackman_, lease-holder, farmer; _cod_, pillow; _drumly pow_, confused head.
NORTHERN (ENGLAND); Group 2: WESTMORELAND.
The following extract is from a remarkable tract entitled _A Bran New Wark, by William De Worfat_; Kendal, 1785.

The author was the Rev.William Hutton, Rector of Beetham in Westmoreland, 1762-1811, and head of a family seated at Overthwaite (here called Worfat) in that parish.

It was edited by me for the E.D.S.in 1879.
Last Saturday sennet, abaut seun in the evening (twas lownd and fraaze hard) the stars twinkled, and the setting moon cast gigantic shadows.

I was stalking hameward across Blackwater-mosses, and whistling as I tramp'd for want of thought, when a noise struck my ear, like the crumpling of frosty murgeon; it made me stop short, and I thought I saw a strange form before me: it vanished behint a windraw; and again thare was nought in view but dreary dykes, and dusky ling.

An awful silence reigned araund; this was sean brokken by a skirling hullet; sure nivver did hullet, herrensue, or miredrum, mak sic a noise before.