r _sledge_.

174. Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Lancashire, &c.

Housen for _houses;_ a-ioyne for _lane;_ mon for _man;_ thik for
_this;_ brig for _bridge;_ thack, pick, for _thatch, pitch_.

175. Yorkshire, &c.

Foyt for _foot;_ foight for _fight;_ o-noite, foil, coil, hoil, for
_note, foal, coal, hole;_ loyne for _lane;_ o-nooin, gooise, fooil,
tooil, for _noon, goose, fool, tool;_ spwort, scworn, whoam, for
_sport, scorn, home;_ g-yet for _gate_.

176. Examples of Provincial Dialects.

The following will be found very amusing:

177. The Cornish Schoolboy.

An ould man found, one day, a young gentleman's portmantle, as he were
a going to es dennar; he took'd et en and gived et to es wife, and
said, "Mally, here's a roul of lither, look, see, I suppoase some poor
ould shoemaker or other have los'en; tak'en, and put'en a top of the
teaster of tha bed; he'll be glad to hab'en agin sum day, I dear say."
The ould man, Jan, that was es neame, went to es work as before.
Mally then opened the portmantle, and found en et three hunderd
pounds. Soon after thes, the ould man not being very well, Mally said,
"Jan, I'ave saaved away a little money, by the bye, and as thee
caan't read or write, thee shu'st go to scool" (he were then nigh
threescore and ten). He went but a very short time, and comed hoam one
day and said, "Mally, I waint go to scool no more, 'caase the childer
do be laffen at me: they can tell their letters, and I caan't tell my
A, B, C, and I wud rayther go to work agen." "Do as thee wool," ses
Mally. Jan had not been out many days, afore Vhe young gentleman came
by that lost the portmantle, and said, "Well, my ould man, did'ee see
or hear tell o' sich a thing as a portmantle?" "Port-mantle, sar,
was't that un, sumthing like thickey?" (pointing to one behind es
saddle). "I vound one the t'other day zackly like that." "Where es,
et?" "Come along, I carr'd'en and gov'en to my ould 'ooman, Mally;
thee sha't av'en, nevr vear.--Mally, where es that roul of lither I
broft en tould thee to put en a top o' the teaster of the bed,
_afore I go'd to scool?_" "Drat thee emperance," said the young
gentleman; "thee art bewattled; _that were afore I were born._"
So he druv'd off, and left all the three hunderd pounds with Jan and
Mally.

178. Yorkshire.

Men an' women is like so monny cards, played wi' be two oppoanents,
Time an' Eternity: