'" (_Gurt_, great; _Smiffle_, Smithfield; _adunnamany_, I
don't know how many; _lear_, thin, hungry; _see_, saw.)
_Sarment_, a sermon. "I likes a good long sarment, I doos; so as
when you wakes up it ain't all over."
_Tempory_ (temporary), slight, badly finished. "Who be I? Why, I be
John Carbury, that's who I be! And who be you? Why, you ain't a man
at all, you ain't! You be naun but a poor tempory creetur run up by
contract, that's what you be!"
_Tot_, a bush; a tuft of grass. "There warn't any grass at all when
we fust come here; naun but a passel o' gurt old tots and tussicks.
You see there was one of these here new-fashioned men had had the
farm, and he'd properly starved the land and the labourers, and the
cattle and everything, without it was hisself." (_Passel_, parcel;
_tussicks_, tufts of rank grass.)
_Twort_ (for _thwart_), pert and saucy. "She's terrible twort--she
wants a good setting down, she do; and she'll get it too. Wait till
my master comes in!"
_Winterpicks_, blackthorn berries.
_Winter-proud_, cold.
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