Alexander Craig Gibson

PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

JOE AND THE GEOLOGIST.

T' REETS ON'T;

BOBBY BANKS' BODDERMENT. ( A Sup of Coald Ke-l het up age-n. )

WISE WIFF.

LAL DINAH GRAYSON.

JWOHNNY, GIT OOT!

THE RUNAWAY WEDDING.

BILLY WATSON' LONNING.

LONE AND WEARY.

T' CLEAN NED O' KES'ICK.

BEN WELLS.

SANNTER, BELLA!

BRANTHET NEUK BOGGLE. (A TEAL FOR A WINTER NEEGHT.)

MARY RAY AN' ME.

THE BANNASYDE "CAIRNS." (IN THE DIALECT OF HIGH FURNESS.)

BETTY YEWDALE. ( Extract from a Lecture on "The People of the

THE SKULLS OF CALGARTH. A Reminiscence of Windermere. (CHIEFLY IN THE DIALECT OF WESTMORLAND.)

MAP'MENT. (IN THE DIALECT OF HIGH FURNESS.)

OXENFELL DOBBY. A Reminiscence of Langdale.

MEENIE BELL.

"A LOCKERBYE LYCKE." 11 (MODERN ANTIQUE.)

"THE FARMERS' WIVES O' ANNANDALE."

A REMINISCENCE OF CORRIE.

REMINISCENCES OF LOCKERBIE.

YAN O' T' ELECT.

KEATY CURBISON'S CAT. AN OALD, OALD STWORY.

JOSEPH THOMPSON'S THUMB. AN OLD HARRINGTON STORY.

CURSTY BENN.

TOM RAILTON'S WHITE SPATS.

A SNECK POSSET.

REMARKS ON THE CUMBERLAND DIALECT.

A GLOSSARY OF SCOTCH AND CUMBRIAN WORDS

FOOTNOTES:

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected.

TO

WILLIAM DICKINSON,

OF NORTH MOSSES AND THORNCROFT,

F. L. S.,

Author of “A Glossary of Cumberland Words and Phrases,”
“Lamplugh Club,” “A Prize Essay on the Agriculture
of West Cumberland,” “The Botany of
Cumberland,” &c., &c., &c.,

THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED,

IN CORDIAL RECOGNITION OF THE PRE-EMINENT
INDUSTRY AND SKILL DISPLAYED IN HIS ELUCIDATIONS
OF THE HOMELY SPEECH
OF OUR NATIVE COUNTY, AND IN GRATEFUL
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE UNFAILING SYMPATHY
AND THE KINDLY HELP WITH WHICH HE
HAS BRIGHTENED A FRIENDSHIP
OF MANY YEARS.