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 a gradely dacent little woman, too, as ever bote off th' edge o' a moufin. Iv that 's aw th' arran yo hav', aw deawt yo 've made a lost gate. Aw ail mich o' naut yet, whan aw'm meyt whot [able to eat meals] an' sich like. Folk connut expect to ha' youth at bwoth ends o' life, aw guess; an' we mun o' un us owd be, or young dee, as th' sayin' is. It 's cowd enough theer to starve an otter to deeath i' winter-time. Folk at 's a dur to keep oppen connut do't wi' th' wynt. [Folk that have a house to maintain cannot do it with the wind.] Owdham rough yeds. Bowton trotters. Smo'bridge cossacks. Heywood "monkey-teawn." Anti-vegetarian diet.—I loike summat at's deed ov a knife. Country people say that town's folk have nothing wholesome about them. They're o' offal and boilin' pieces. He 'll seawk lamp-oil through a 'bacco-pipe, iv onybody 'll give him a droight o' ale to wesh it deawn wi'.

Iv yo'rn up at th' Smo'bridge, yo'dd'n be fit to heyt yerth bobs and scaplins welly [small fragments]. Th' wynt's cleean up theer, an' ther's plenty on't, and we con help ersels to 't when we liken. Aw 's ne'er get eawt o' this hoyl, till aw'm carried eawt feet foremost.