Dialect Rhyme.
Reading edition
The subjoined is a specimen of the dialect spoken in the county of Lancashire, England. The verse is a description of a lost baby, by the town-crier, or bellman, who still plies his trade in out-of-the-way parts of England—
Law-st oather [either] to-day or else some toime to morn, As pratty a babby as ever wur born; It has cheeks like red roses, two bonny blue een, Had it meauth daubed wi' traycle th' last toime it were seen; It's just cuttin' it teeth, an' has very sore gums, An' it's gettin' a habit o' suckin' it thumbs; Thoose at foind it may keep it, there's nob'dy'll care, For thoose at hav lost it, hav lots moor to spare!