" (_The sheeres_, any
shire of England except Kent and Sussex; _call_, reason; _cluck_,
out of spirits; _coke_, to peep; _cog_, to entice.)
_Joy_, a jay. "Poor old Master Crockham, he's in terrible order,
surel{'y}! The meece have taken his peas, and the joys have got at
his beans, and the snags have spilt all his lettuce." (_Order_, bad
temper; _meece_, mice; _snags_, snails; _spilt_, spoilt.)
_Kiddle_, to tickle. "Those thunder-bugs did kiddle me so that I
couldn't keep still no hows." (_Thunder-bug_, a midge.)
_Lawyer_, a long bramble full of thorns, so called because, "when
once they gets a holt an ye, ye do{a}nt easy get shut of 'em."
_Leetle_, a diminutive of little. "I never see one of these here
gurt men there's s'much talk about in the peapers, only once, and
that was up at Smiffle Show adunnamany years agoo. Prime minister,
they told me he was, up at London; a leetle, lear, miserable,
skinny-looking chap as ever I see. 'Why,' I says, 'we do{a}nt count
our minister to be much, but he's a deal primer-looking than what
yourn be.
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