Thah nivver sees nooa knock-kneed cutlers nah:
nou, not sooa; they'n better mesters nah, an they'n better sooat a
wark anole. They dooant mezher em we a stick, as oud Natta Hall did.
But for all that, we'd none a yer wirligig polishin; nor Tom Dockin
scales, wit bousters comin off; nor yer sham stag, nor sham revvits,
an sich loik. T' noives wor better made then, Jerra.
_Jerra_: Hah, they wor better made; they made t' noives for yuse
then, but they mayn em to sell nah.
Notes.--Observe _'n_ for _han_ (plural), have; _on't nah_,
of it now; _e heitin_, in eating; _mess a_, dish of, meal of;
_brawis_, brose, porridge; _hah_, how; _sahwer wotcake_,
leavened oatcake; _bur o_, but I; _mo_, my; _ma_, me;
_tubbe oud_, to be old; _gers_, gets; _war for ware_,
worse for wear; _o'st_, I shall; _think on_, remember;
_enah_, presently; _nah days_, nowadays; _at's_, that are;
_dun too_, treated; _nor we_, than we; _Hallamshoir_,
Hallamshire, the district including Sheffield and the
neighbourhood; _sen_, say; _happen_, perhaps; _for't_,
for the; _hofe at_, half of the; _e them_, in those;
_lether'd_, beaten; _whoile_, till; _clam'd_ (for _clamm'd_),
starved; _sooat a_, sort of; _anole_, and all; _we_, with;
_wirligig_, machine; _Tom Dockin scales_, scales cut out of
thin rolled iron instead of being forged; _bousters_, bolsters
(a _bolster_ is a lump of metal between the tang and the blade
of a knife); _stag_, stag-horn handle (?); _mayn_, pl.
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