INTRODUCTION.

Come Nivver De e Thee Shell.

Oud Betty's Advice.

The Fugitive: a Tale Kersmas Time.

Sall at Bog.

Th' Furst Pair o' Briches.

Fra Haworth ta Bradford.

O, Welcome, Lovely Summer.

Burns's 113th Birthday.

Waiting for t' Angels.

Spring.

Haworth Sharpness.

The Lass o' Newsholme Dean.

The Broken Pitcher.

The Benks o' the Aire.

Dear Harden.

Castlear's Address to Spain.

Christmas Day.

What Profits Me.

Ode to Sir Titus Salt.

Coud az Leead.

The Factory Girl.

Bonny Lark.

T'oud Blacksmith's Advise ta hiz Son Ned.

Address ta mi Bed.

Home ov Mi Boyish Days.

Ode ta Spring Sixty-four.

My Drechen Dear.

Address t't First Wesherwuman.

In a Pleasant Little Valley.

Johnny o' t' Bog an' Keighley Feff-fee Goast: A Tale o' Poverty.

Charming Rebekka o' Riddlesden Hall.

Shoo's Deead an' Goan!

The Heroic Watchman of Calversike Hill.

Betty Blake: A Tale of Butterworth Panic.

The Vision.

A New Devorse.

Gooise an' Giblet Pie.

Ode to Wedlock!

Com Geas a Wag o' thee Paw.

Song of the Months, from January to December.

My Visit ta't Glory Band.

T' History o't Haworth Railway.

T' Village Aram-Skaram.

Behold How the Rivers!

The World's Wheels.

Full o' Doubts an' Fears.

It Izant so we Me.

Ode to an Herring.

Our Poor Little Factory Girls.

We Him haw call my awn.

A Yorkshireman's Christmas.

The Fethered Captive.

Trip to Malsis Hall.

Dame Europe's Lodging House.

The Bould Bucaneers:

The Veteran.

The Vale of Aire.

The Pauper's Box.

—o—

By Bill o’th Hoylus End.

—o—

Sae I’ve begun to scrawl, but whether
In rhyme or prose, or baith thegither,
Or some hotch-potch that’s rightly neither,
         Let time mak proof;
But shall I scribble down some blether
         Just clean aff-loof.

I am nae poet, in a sense,
But just a rhymer, like, by chance,
And hae to learning nae pretence.
         Yet, what the matter?
Whene’er my muse does on me glance,
         I jingle at her.

Burns.

—o—

KEIGHLEY:
A. APPLEYARD, PRINTER, CHURCH GREEN.
1876.

Most Respectfully

Dedicated to

James Wright,

Local Musician and Composer,

North Beck Mills,

Keighley,

By the Author.

Dec. 25th, 1876.