.. She stoup'd and drop'd a poak, and thus
began with a whining tone. "Deary me! deary me! forgive me, good Sir,
but this yance, I'll steal naa maar. This seek is elding to keep us
fra starving!"... [_The author visits the poor woman's cottage_.]
She sat on a three-legg'd steal, and a dim coal smook'd within the
rim of a brandreth, oor which a seety rattencreak hung dangling fra
a black randletree. The walls were plaister'd with dirt, and a stee,
with hardly a rung, was rear'd into a loft. Araund the woman her
lile ans sprawl'd on the hearth, some whiting speals, some
snottering and crying, and ya ruddy-cheek'd lad threw on a bullen
to make a loww, for its mother to find her loup. By this sweal I
beheld this family's poverty.
Notes.--_Sennet_, seven nights, week; _seun_, seven;
_lownd_, still, calm; _murgeon_, rubbish earth cut up and
thrown aside in order to get peat; _windraw_, heap of dug
earth; _ling_, kind of heather; _skirling hullet_, shrieking
owlet; _herrensue_, young heron; _miredrum_, bittern; _blead
storkened_, blood congealed; _neet_, night; _poak_, bag;
_yance_, once; _seck_, sack, i.
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