make.
MIDLAND (Group 6): CHESHIRE.
The following extract is from "Betty Bresskittle's Pattens, or Sanshum
Fair," by J.C. Clough; printed with Holland's _Cheshire Glossary_,
E.D.S. (1886), p. 466. Sanshum or Sanjem Fair is a fair held at
Altrincham on St James's Day.
Jud sprung upo' th' stage leet as a buck an' bowd as a dandycock,
an' th' mon what were playingk th' drum (only it wer'nt a gradely
drum) gen him a pair o' gloves. Jud began a-sparringk, an' th'
foaks shaouted, "Hooray! Go it, owd Jud! Tha'rt a gradely Cheshire
mon!"
Th' black felly next gen Jud a wee bit o' a bang i' th' reet ee, an
Jud git as weild as weild, an hit reet aht, but some hah he couldna
git a gradely bang at th' black mon. At-aftur two or three minutes
th' black felly knocked Jud dahn, an t'other chap coom and picked
him up, an' touch'd Jud's faace wi' th' spunge everywheer wheer he'd
getten a bang, but th' spunge had getten a gurt lot o' red ruddle on
it, so that it made gurt red blotches upo' Jud's faace wheer it
touched it; an th' foaks shaouted and shaouted, "Hooray, Jud! Owd
mon! at em agen!" An Jud let floy a good un, an th' mon wi' th'
spunge had to pick th' blackeymoor up this toime an put th' ruddle
upo' his faace just at-under th'ee.
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