ALMONDBURY AND HUDDERSFIELD. 33 At the time when leather breeches were commonly worn, a prentice lad had got wet, and oyer night actually placed his small-clothes in the oven to dry. In the early morning he went downstairs, and speedily came running back with a handful of matter which looked hke a large brown cinder, calling out to his brother apprentice, * Ho! Jooa, Au conna get ma' breeches on I * * What for, lad P am't they dra P ' * Dra and dra!— all draued to a croxzil, all but buttons and shanks.' Crozzlin^ the diminutive of Crozzle, and signifies a little hard cinder. Cmddle, to cuidla CruddleBtaff, i. e, curdlestafif, otherwise the handle of the cham. A respectable and well-known individual of the neighbourhood, when on one occasion they coidd not make the butter chum, caused a new cruddUstaff to be made of wiggin to withstand the witch, supposed to be at the bottom of the chum, or at least of the mischief. Cmt, a hut, or small cot. In some parts means a dwarl Cnckoo-point, the name of the well-known plant Ai^m maculatum. It is also called * Lords and Ladies,' * Priest's pintle,' and *Wake Eobin.' Cnokoo-Bplt, or Cuckoo-spittle. See Brock. Ouckoo-spit occurs in Bobert Greene's A Quij) for an Upstart Courtier : * There was the gentle giUiflower, that wives should wear, if they were not too froward; and loyal lavender, but that was full of cuckoo-sjpits.* Cum thank, peculiarly used in the expression, still frequently heard,
- I cum ye no thatihy i. e. I acknowledge no thanks to you; where
come or cum seems a mistake or coiTuption of con^ having the meaning of ' know ' in the sense of * to acknowledge.' It occurs in Robin Hood, Fytte iv. ver. 36 : ' And thou art made her messengere, My money for to pay, Therefore I con thee more thank Thou art come at thy day.' A certain person had the misfortune some years ago, perhaps unwittingly, to appropriate moneys illegally, was tried for the offence, and was in danger of transportation. A fnend of mine busied himself in getting up a memorial to the court, in which the prisoner was stated (truly ecough) to be of weak intellect. In consequence his sentence; was commuted to twelve months' imprisonment. Some years afterwards the grateful prisoner took advantage of the memorial- ist in a trading transaction, and when he was naturally reproached for his ingratitude, he retorted, * Au come ye no thank for what yo did for me, nouther yo nor them 'at signed yor paper; yo made me into an eediot, or waur; if s takk'n away mi' character. Au'd rather ha' been sent yat o' th' country nor mAue into an eediot' Curing-dropB, the last drops of medicine in a glass : obviously so called to entice children to take off their doses. Currans, or Currant-berrieB, currants.
