is a shrow."
"Be sure don't let en come
An' run athirt your shoe
He'll meaeke your voot so numb
That you wont veel a tooe."[G]
"Oh! what wer that so loud
A-rumblen?" "Why a clap
O' thunder. Here's a cloud
O' rain. I veel a drap."
"A thunderstorm. Do rain.
Run hwome wi' might an' main."
"Hee! hee! oh! there's a drop
A-trickled down my back. Hee! hee!"
"My head's as wet's a mop."
"Oh! thunder," "there's a crack. Oh! Oh!"
"Oh! I've a-got the stitch, Oh!"
"Oh! I've a-lost my shoe, Oh!"
"There's Fanny into ditch, Oh!"
"I'm wet all drough an' drough, Oh!"

[Footnote F: The idea, though but little of the substance, of this
poem, will be found in a little Italian poem called _Caccia_, written
by Franco Sacchetti.]

[Footnote G: The folklore is, that if a shrew-mouse run over a
person's foot, it will lame him.]

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A LIST OF SOME DORSET WORDS

WITH A FEW HINTS ON DORSET WORD-SHAPES.

THE MAIN SOUNDS.

1. _ee_ in beet.
2. _e_ in Dorset (a sound between 1 and 3.)
3. _a_ in mate.
4. _i_ in birth.
5. _a_ in father.
6. _aw_ in awe.
7. _o_ in dote.
8. _oo_ in rood.

In Dorset words which are forms of book-English ones, the Dorset words
differ from the others mainly by Grimm's law, that "likes shift into
likes," and I have given a few hints by which the putting of an
English heading for the Dorset one will give the English word. If the
reader is posed by _dreaten_, he may try for _dr_, _thr_, which will
bring out _threaten_. See _Dr_ under _D_.

A.

_a_ in father, and _au_ in daughter are, in "Blackmore," often _a_ = 3.
So king Alfred gives a legacy to his _yldsta dehter_--oldest daehter.
_a_ is a fore-eking to participles of a fore time, as _a-vound_;
also for the Anglo-Saxon _an_, _in_ or _on_,
as _a-hunten_ for _an huntunge_.
_ai_, _ay_ (5, 1), Maid, May.
(_Note_--The numbers (as 5, 1) refer to the foregiven table.)
_ag_, often for _eg_, as bag, agg, beg, egg.

_Anewst_, _Anighst_, very near, or nearly.

_A'r a_, ever a, as.

_A'r a dog_, ever a dog.

_Amper_, pus.

_A'r'n_, e'er a one.

_A-stooded_ (as a waggon), with wheels sunk fast into rotten ground.

_A-stogged_, _A-stocked_, with feet stuck fast in clay.

_A-strout_, stiff stretched.

_A-thirt_, athwart (_th_ soft).

_A-vore_, afore, before.

_Ax_, ask.

_Axan_, ashes (of fire).

_A-zew_, dry,