A. An’ horn vor eyes is horn vor light,
Vrom goodman’s lantern after night;
Horn vor the ears is woone to sound
Vor hunters out wi’ ho’se an’ hound;
But horn that vo’k do buy to smell o’
Is hart’s-horn.
J. Is it? What d’ye tell o’
How proud we be, vor ben’t we smart?
Aye, horn is horn, an’ hart is hart.
Well here then, Anne, while we be at it,
’S a ball vor you if you can bat it.
“On dree-lags, two-lags, by the zide
O’ vowr lags, woonce did zit wi’ pride,
When vowr lags, that velt a prick,
Vrom six-lags, het two lags a kick,
An’ two an’ dree-lags vell, all vive,
Slap down, zome dead an’ zome alive.
A. Teeh! heeh! what have ye now then, Joe,
At last, to meäke a riddle o’?
J. Your dree-lagg’d stool woone night did bear
Up you a milkèn wi’ a peair;
An’ there a six-lagg’d stout[1] did prick
Your vow’r-lagg’d cow, an meäke her kick,
A-hettèn, wi’ a pretty pat,
Your stool an’ you so flat’s a mat.
You scrambled up a little dirty,
But I do hope it didden hurt ye.
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- ↑ The local name for the gad-fly or cow-fly (Tabanus bovinus
