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ADDITIONS TO "YORKSHIRE LOCAL RHYMES AND SAYINGS."



[See Folk-Lore Record, vol. i. pp. 160-175; vol. iii. pt. 2, pp. 174-177.]



The following local sayings picked from an article, "Yorkshire Rhymes and Proverbs," contributed by Mr. William Andrews to Old Yorkshire, vol. i. pp. 263-269, deserve to be stored with those already housed in the garners of the Folk-Lore Society.

(58.) Addleborough. Concerning Addleborough Hill, where there are remains of a Druidical circle, it is asserted with perhaps more reason than rhyme—

"Druid, Roman, Scandinavia,
Stone raise on Addleboro'."

(59.) Cleveland Villages:

"Halton, Rudby, Entrepen,
Far more rogues than honest men."

(60.) Cottingham, near Hull. Here are some intermittent springs called Keldgate, which are supposed to be in some way dependent on the Derwent, twenty miles away. The saying runs: —

"When Derwent flows
Then Keldgate goes."

(61.) Wharfe and Aire:

"Wharfe is clear and the Aire lithe;
'Where the Aire drowns one, Wharfe drowns five."

(62.) Weather Rhymes:

"When the clouds are on the hills
They'll come down by the mills."

(63.)

"When the mist comes from the hill
Then good weather it doth spill.
When the mist comes from the sea,
Then good weather it will be."