sort of; _anole_, and all; _we_, with;
_wirligig_, machine; _Tom Dockin scales_, scales cut out of
thin rolled iron instead of being forged; _bousters_, bolsters
(a _bolster_ is a lump of metal between the tang and the blade
of a knife); _stag_, stag-horn handle (?); _mayn_, pl. make.

MIDLAND (Group 6): CHESHIRE.

The following extract is from "Betty Bresskittle's Pattens, or Sanshum
Fair," by J.C. Clough; printed with Holland's _Cheshire Glossary_,
E.D.S. (1886), p. 466. Sanshum or Sanjem Fair is a fair held at
Altrincham on St James's Day.

Jud sprung upo' th' stage leet as a buck an' bowd as a dandycock,
an' th' mon what were playingk th' drum (only it wer'nt a gradely
drum) gen him a pair o' gloves. Jud began a-sparringk, an' th'
foaks shaouted, "Hooray! Go it, owd Jud! Tha'rt a gradely Cheshire
mon!"

Th' black felly next gen Jud a wee bit o' a bang i' th' reet ee, an
Jud git as weild as weild, an hit reet aht, but some hah he couldna
git a gradely bang at th' black mon. At-aftur two or three minutes
th' black felly knocked Jud dahn, an t'other chap coom and picked
him up, an' touch'd Jud's faace wi' th' spunge everywheer wheer he'd
getten a bang, but th' spunge had getten a gurt lot o' red ruddle on
it, so that it made gurt red blotches upo' Jud's faace wheer it
touched it; an th' foaks shaouted and shaouted, "Hooray, Jud! Owd
mon! at em agen!" An Jud let floy a good un, an th' mon wi' th'
spunge had to pick th' blackeymoor up this toime an put th' ruddle
upo' his faace just at-under th'ee.

"Hooray, Jud! hooray, owd mon!" shaouted Jock Carter o' Runjer;
"tha'rt game, if tha'rt owd!"

Just at that vary minit Jud's weife, bad as hoo were wi' th'
rheumatic, pushed her roo{a}d through th' foaks, and stood i' th'
frunt o' th' show.

"Go it agen, Jud! here's th' weife coom t'see hah gam tha art!"
shaouted Jonas.

Jud turn'd rahnd an gurned at th' frunt o' th' show wi' his faace
aw ruddle.

"Tha girt soo! I'll baste thi when aw get thi hwom, that aw will!"
shaouted Betty Bresskittle; "aw wunder tha artna ashamed o' thisen,
to stond theer a-feightingk th' deevil hissel!"

Notes.--_Jud_, for George; _leet_, light; _bowd_, bold;
_dandycock_, Bantam cock; _gradely_, proper; _gen_, gave; _owd_,
old; _reet ee_, right eye; _git_, got; _as weild as weild_, as
wild as could be; _aht_, out; _at-aftur_, after; _gurt_, great;