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 ALMONDBURT AND HUDDER8F1ELD. 51 Full, pronounced as usual. When in playing at lingtaw, &c., a boy "wishes another to fire, and not place his marble in some convenient place with his hand, he says, * FtU thee ;' or if to fire through the rin^, then, * Full thee through.' The word • fallock ' is applied to pro- jecting a marble somewhat slowly by means of the thunu) and Sent forefinger. Fun, past tense and past participle of to find. Furr, sb. a furrow. Occurs in Bums's Holy Fair : ' The hares were hirpling down the/ur«.* Fuzbally ab, the well-known fungus, F. pulverulentui. Furry, secky, thirdy, and laoky, all words used at marbles, when boys call for the first, second, third, or last turn. This letter is not often heard in the termination ng, except in words of one syllable. O or gh at the end of some words is hard here, though softened in classical English. Thus, craigh, craw; gnaigh, gnaw ; haighy haw ; saighy saw ; so lig^ lie ; perhaps also dokty or doae^ claw. There is also a very singular pronunciation of gh. See the words Keighley and Pi^rhle. Oabbleratohes, Oobbleratohes, or Flee-by-neets, called by some sidered to be forewamers of death. There is an opinion that these birds are at least of two distinct kinds. The * night- whistlers ' are bird? high in the air, passing by, but of doubtful race ; they have, however, a perfect wmstle. The gabbleratcheSy on the other hand, are said to nequent damp places, and their cry is a sort of gabble like that of the magpie. As specimens of the superstitions which have prevailed, I hear that on one occasion the gabbleratchea passed over this valley, when a woman had the hardihood to go out and mock them. They flew to the window of her house and left blood there. A person (!) died soon after. One of my informants remembers his mother to have said to her children, wishing to keep them within-doors, ' Yo'll be heariu* gabhleratche$ some a these neete^ and then yoll stop i' Hk* haas.' About Leeds gabhlercUcJiea are believed to be the restless souls of children who have died unbaptized. Halliwell says, ' At Wedneebury there is a superstition of hounds in the air, which are called Gbbriers Hounds, but the more sober con- sider them to be wild geese in their flight.' When it is considered that raiche or rache is a dog which hunts oy scent, it is probable that these superstitious are the same, and the names nearly or quite the same, in an old song the expression ' gable rangers ' occurs, the meaning of which is (£>ubtful. Can it l^ the same as Ihe above P 'Hounds,' *ratches,' and 'rangers* may be looked on as synony- mous, but how about 'Gabriel,' 'gabble,* and 'gablo,' which have fi 2
 * night- whistlers,* birds which fly oyerhead in the night, and are con-