Page:Barnes (1879) Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect (combined).djvu/435

Rh &emsp;&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;We all did wag &emsp;&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;A spankèn lag, &emsp;&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;To win good speed, When we, straight-knee’d, wi’ foreright tooes, &emsp;Should shoot along the slipp’ry track, &emsp;Wi’ grindèn sound, a-gettèn slack, The slower went our clumpèn shoes.

&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;Vor zome slow chap, &emsp;&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;Did teäke mishap, &emsp;&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;As he did veel &emsp;&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;His hinder heel &emsp;&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;A-het a thump, Wi’ zome big lump, o’ voot an’ shoe. &emsp;Down vell the voremost wi’ a squall, &emsp;An’ down the next went wi’ a sprawl, An’ down went all the laughèn crew.

&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;As to an’ fro, &emsp;&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;In merry row, &emsp;&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;We all went round &emsp;&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;On ice, on ground &emsp;&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;The maïdens nigh A-stannèn shy, did zee us slide, &emsp;An’ in their eäprons small, did vwold &emsp;Their little hands, a-got red-cwold, Or slide on ice o’ two veet wide.

&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;By leafless copse, &emsp;&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;An’ beäre tree-tops, &emsp;&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;An’ zun’s low beams, &emsp;&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;An’ ice-boun’ streams, &emsp;&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;An’ vrost-boun’ mill, A-stannèn still. Come wind, blow on, &emsp;An’ gi’e the bwoys, this Chris’mas tide, &emsp;The glitt’rèn ice to meäke a slide, As we had our slide, years agone.