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ALMONDBURT AND HUDDERSFIELD. Ill BtdBneTi a ruffian; a rough person. Bnfflo topping, a rough head of hair, and applied to one who has such. Bump, a name given to the foliage of the oak about the 29th of May : so spoken of even when on the tree. The boys gather branches of ity and Did others display theirs; in failure of which they are beaten with the oaken boughs. Bush-bearing, the name of one of the Almondbury feasts^ which occurs on the first Monday in August. In former times, I under- stand, a rush-cart was drawn through Ihe town, and on the cart were displayed such articles of silver as the neighbours would lend for the PTirpose; the cart too was attended by persons who danced as it was drawn along. The festival is still kept, but shorn of this observance. The names of feasts in this neighbourhood are somewhat varied and curious; thus, Almondbury Eush-bearing, or Bush, Kirkheaton Bant (Yetton Bant), Kirkburton Trinity (because on Trinity Sunday and Monday^, Longwood Thump, Meltham Bartleby (Bartholo- mew ). Joes Ajmitage (b'ttle Joe A.), who formerly went aoout raper dancmg, used to say the feast was on the first Saturday after old St. James's Day. T. B. says there was never much to do on the Monday till after the Beform Bill was passed; previously it was all on the Saturday from four till bed-time or so. John Buckley was the first man to begin on the Monday with his speeches for the mock election of members of Parliament; but the bull-baiting, which ended many years previously, had generally been held on the Monday. S There are certain peculiarities connected with tlus letter. (1) The possessive a is almost always omitted; as, *Jem knife,' ' Tom hat,' &c.; except, curiously enough, in some words where in ordinary English it is omitted; as, * townU hall,* * the totvn^a books.' Still more remarkably, the '« is added in those instances similar to * for justice' sake.' ^e JtUiiM Coeaar, Act lY. sc. iii. : ' Did not great Julius bleed for Justice* sake P ' I have frequently heard the expression, * For peace' a sake; * and one of my esteemed contributors writes, not as an example of a York- shireism, but in perfect good faith, as customary English, ' For eaae^a sake.' (2) In at least one instance the a is flattened, i. e, the word tM, objective of we, which is always called uz; but in CLa and ia many persons here sharpen it, t. e. they become aaa, iaa, but that is done when they think they are q)eaking good English. (3) Again, it appears here in words which want it in some other counties; as, amuae^ muse, for game; apink, pink, a bird; apetch, patch, on a isQioe, &c.; anapCf nip, as a frost; atitey tite (see Stite).