Page:Barnes (1879) Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect (combined).djvu/145

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A GHOST.
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WIFE.

An’ little Jack, you know, ’s a-gwaïn to eärn
A penny too, a-keepèn birds off corn.

JOHN.

O brave! What wages do ’e meän to gi’e?

WIFE.

She dreppence vor a day, an’ twopence he.

JOHN.

Well, Polly; thou must work a little spracker
When thou bist out, or else thou wu’ten pick
A dungpot lwoad o’ stwones up very quick.

CHILD.

Oh! yes I shall. But Jack do want a clacker:
An’ father, wull ye teäke an’ cut
A stick or two to meäke his hut.

JOHN.

You wench! why you be always up a-baggèn.
I be too tired now to-night, I’m sure,
 To zet a-doèn any mwore:
Zoo I shall goo up out o’ the waÿ o’ the waggon.

Eclogue.

A GHOST.


Jem an’ Dick.


JEM.

This is a darkish evenèn; b’ye a-feärd

O’ zights? Theäse leäne’s a-haunted, I’ve a heärd.

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