 | Robert Anderson - 1805 - 196 sider
...tell what I saw, How I sceap'd frae the gallows, the sowdgers and aw ; Ay ! there were some forgery chaps bad me just sign my neame. ' Nay,' says I, ' you've gotten a wrang pig by the lug, for I canno write !' Then a fellow like a lobster, aw leac'd and feather'd, ax'd me, ' Watty,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 282 sider
...Nay,' says I,' you've gotten a wrang pig by the lug, for I canno write.' Then a fellow like a lobiiter, aw leac'd and feather'd, ax'd me, ' Watty, wull te...owther be a general or a gomoral.' " • ' Nay, I wunuet—that's plain : I's content wi' a cwoat o' inodder's spinnin.' Now, wi' twee groats and tuppence,... | |
 | Westmorland dialect - 1839 - 420 sider
...just to tell what I saw, How I sceap'd frae the gallows, the sowdgers and aw. Spoken.'\ Aa, there was some fworgery chaps bad me just sign my neame. " Nay,"...thou's owther be a general or a gomoral." "Nay, I wunnet—that's plain—I's content wi" a cwoat o' mudder's spinnin'." Now, wi' twee groats and tuppence,... | |
 | Westmorland dialect - 1839 - 432 sider
...just to tell what I saw, How I sceap'd frae the gallows, the sowdgers and aw. Spoken.] Aa, there was some fworgery chaps bad me just sign my neame. "Nay,"...feather'd, ax'd me. " Watty, wull te 'list ? thou's owtherbea general or a gomoral." "Nay, I wunnet — that's plain— I's content wi' a cwoat o' mudder's... | |
 | Sidney Gilpin - 1866 - 594 sider
...wrang pig by the lug, for I.canno write !" Then a fellow like a lobster, aw leac'd and feather' d, ax'd me, "Watty, wull te list? thou's owther be a...content wi' a cwoat o' mudder's spinnin." Now, wi' twea groats and tuppence, I'll e'en toddle heame, But ne'er be a sowdger wheyle Watty's my neame. How... | |
 | Sidney Gilpin - 1866 - 586 sider
...tell what I saw — How I skeap'd frae the gallows, the sowdgers and aw. Ay ! there were some forgery chaps bad me just sign my neame. "Nay," says I, "you've gotten a wrang pig by the lug, for I canno write !" Then a fellow like a lobster, aw leac'd and feather'd, ax'd me, "Watty,... | |
 | George Coward (of Carlisle) - 1874 - 254 sider
...tell what I saw — How I skeap'd frae the gallows, the sowdgers and aw. Ay ! there were some forgery chaps bad me just sign my neame. " Nay," says I, " you've gotten a wrang pig by the lug, for I canno write !" Then a fellow like a lobster, aw leac'd and feather'd, ax'd me, "Watty,... | |
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you've gotten a wrang pig by t' lug, for I canna write.' Then a fellow leyke a lobster, aw leac'd and feather'd, ax'd me, ,. • Watty, wull te list ? thou's owther be a general or a gomoral.' — ' Nay, I wunnet — that's plain: I's content wi 