THE Folk-Speech of Cumberland AND SOME DISTRICTS ADJACENT;
Reading edition
BEING
SHORT STORIES AND RHYMES
IN THE DIALECTS OF THE WEST BORDER COUNTIES.
BY
ALEXANDER CRAIG GIBSON, F.S.A.
What hempen Home-spuns have we swaggering here.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Speech, manners, morals, all without disguise.
The Excursion.
LONDON: JOHN RUSSELL SMITH; CARLISLE: GEO. COWARD. MDCCCLXIX.
TO
WILLIAM DICKINSON,
OF NORTH MOSSES AND THORNCROFT,
F. L. S.,
Author of “A Glossary of Cumberland Words and Phrases,” “Lamplugh Club,” “A Prize Essay on the Agriculture of West Cumberland,” “The Botany of Cumberland,” &c., &c., &c.,
THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED,
IN CORDIAL RECOGNITION OF THE PRE-EMINENT INDUSTRY AND SKILL DISPLAYED IN HIS ELUCIDATIONS OF THE HOMELY SPEECH OF OUR NATIVE COUNTY, AND IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE UNFAILING SYMPATHY AND THE KINDLY HELP WITH WHICH HE HAS BRIGHTENED A FRIENDSHIP OF MANY YEARS.