luck over it; and for my part I dunno but what I be
very glad an't, for he was a chap as was always a-cokeing about the
cupboards, and cogging her out of a Sunday." (_The sheeres_, any
shire of England except Kent and Sussex; _call_, reason; _cluck_,
out of spirits; _coke_, to peep; _cog_, to entice.)

_Joy_, a jay. "Poor old Master Crockham, he's in terrible order,
surel{'y}! The meece have taken his peas, and the joys have got at
his beans, and the snags have spilt all his lettuce." (_Order_, bad
temper; _meece_, mice; _snags_, snails; _spilt_, spoilt.)

_Kiddle_, to tickle. "Those thunder-bugs did kiddle me so that I
couldn't keep still no hows." (_Thunder-bug_, a midge.)

_Lawyer_, a long bramble full of thorns, so called because, "when
once they gets a holt an ye, ye do{a}nt easy get shut of 'em."

_Leetle_, a diminutive of little. "I never see one of these here
gurt men there's s'much talk about in the peapers, only once, and
that was up at Smiffle Show adunnamany years agoo. Prime minister,
they told me he was, up at London; a leetle, lear, miserable,
skinny-looking chap as ever I see. 'Why,' I says, 'we do{a}nt count
our minister to be much, but he's a deal primer-looking than what
yourn be.'" (_Gurt_, great; _Smiffle_, Smithfield; _adunnamany_, I
don't know how many; _lear_, thin, hungry; _see_, saw.)

_Sarment_, a sermon. "I likes a good long sarment, I doos; so as
when you wakes up it ain't all over."

_Tempory_ (temporary), slight, badly finished. "Who be I? Why, I be
John Carbury, that's who I be! And who be you? Why, you ain't a man
at all, you ain't! You be naun but a poor tempory creetur run up by
contract, that's what you be!"

_Tot_, a bush; a tuft of grass. "There warn't any grass at all when
we fust come here; naun but a passel o' gurt old tots and tussicks.
You see there was one of these here new-fashioned men had had the
farm, and he'd properly starved the land and the labourers, and the
cattle and everything, without it was hisself." (_Passel_, parcel;
_tussicks_, tufts of rank grass.)

_Twort_ (for _thwart_), pert and saucy. "She's terrible twort--she
wants a good setting down, she do; and she'll get it too. Wait till
my master comes in!"

_Winterpicks_, blackthorn berries.

_Winter-proud_, cold. "When you sees so many of these here
winterpicks about, you may be pretty sure 'twill be middlin'
winter-proud."