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Jennings, James

"The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire"

_Pally,_ you tell yer Gramfer Palmer that I da zAc
_Hetty Came_ shood lorn ta knitty; an a shood buy zum knittin
nills and wusterd vor er; an a shood git er zum nills and dird,
vor er to lorn to zawy too.
Now _Miss Whitin_, tha dunces be a gwon, let I hire how pirty
you can read.--I Aclways zed that PAcson Tuttle's grandActer ood lorn
er book well.--Now, _Miss_, what ha ye a got there?
_Valentine an Orson._--A pirty storry, bit I be afeard
there's naw moril to it.--What be Acll tha tuthermy books you a got
by yer goodhussey there in tha basket? Gee's-zee-'em,[Footnote:
_Let me see them_. This is a singular expression, and is thus
to be analysed; _Give us to see them_.] nif you please,
_Miss Polly_.--Tha _Zeven Champions_--_Goody Two
Shoes_--_Pawems vor Infant minds_.--TheA¤zamy here be by
vur tha best.--There is a moril ta mooA¤st o'm; an thAc
be pirty bezides.--Now, _Miss_, please ta read thic--
_Tha Notorious Glutton_.--_Pal Came!_ turn tha glass!
dwon't ye zee tha zond is Acll hirnd out;--you'll stAc in school tha
longer for't nif you dwon't mine it.


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