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PREFACE.

JOE AND THE GEOLOGIST.

T’ REETS ON’T;

BOBBY BANKS’ BODDERMENT. (A Sup of Coald Keàl het up ageàn.)

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 English Lake Country, in their Humorous Aspect.”)

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.” (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