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 ALMONDBURY AND HUDDERSFIELD. 65 (1876) the children of one of the Bagg^ Schools had a feast. At table a young lad, who seemed to have enjoyed his meat, and to have had enough, was asked by a kindly subscriber in attendance if he would have some pudding, to which he promptly replied, * Now (no), Au'll tak' some more mate/ When this was demolished the question was repeated, and the same answer returned. The proposal was made once more, and the lad, who was now replete and irritable, answered sharply, * Now; Au'm full up, Au tell tiiee; Au cannot hod,^ If some good Samaritan had fiirnished this youtili with the traditional half-crown, as he evidently possessed the (quality of nerseyerance to lead to ultimate success, a splendid career might have oeen looked for. Hodden^ or Ho'den, t. e. bolden, the past participle of to hold, Hodfiisty t. 6. holdfast, adj, used thus : ' Au'm varry hod/ast on it ' = * I am sure of it.' Eoil, the pronunciation of the word hole» ' T* hoUf* i. e. the hole, means a cage, or a prison. Used also in yarious compounds: draught-^7, hen-hoU, pickin-^7, steel-Aoi7, &o. (which see). I, sb. the name of a game of marbles, which are cast into a hole on the ground. The word is no doubt formed from hoil, hole, and Ittkes, games. Eoleyn, or EoUin, sb. the hoUy tree. Hollin is quite generally used. See The Outlaw Murray, yer. 3 : And the green hollin abune their bree.' ' Thick ffollins ' is the name of a residence near Meltham. Eoo, j[>6r«. pron. she [A.S. hSo'] : nearly gone out of use, but I occa- sionally meet with it. Shoo [A.S. a^ol is now much more used here, (connected with the pronoun of the third person singular, masculine or feminine, two curious usages prevail. 1. The speaker will use correctly the first person of the verb, and with it what is now the third, as thus : * I haven't been there, nor isn^t goin^; ' 'I haven't taken that houee, nor doesii^ t intend ' [which in fsLct IS the old Northumbrian first person preserved. — ^W. W. S.] 2. In fiunilies parents will speak to their children, even when grown up, addressing them in the mass in the third singular, and fiien as it were tossing the remark to one. Thus a father, mstead of saying to his daughter, ' Mary, iron me another handkerchief,' would express himself tnus : ' STie must iron me another handkerchief — Mary I ' This certainly has the effect of keeping all attentive. Hoodfltone. See Eadstone. Eoof, or Hoove (pronounced as spelt), ab. a part of the skin on the hand made hard by labour. Sometimes hurriers in coal-pits will have hooves on their heads, from constantly pushing the carts. Hoofed, used as a participle, connected with the above. 'He's hoofed to it,' «'. e. he is hardened or accustomed to it.
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