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Show LANCASHIRE IIIMOR. The LuDcistire c'a'ec:, n standing its broad vowels arj-i sorae-t sorae-t what drawling st.ile. is anything but J unmusical in the nioUth of a g-.-nxne i native. . Away towards BkLe ' Edge yon hear it in perfection: i-r it ' is neces-ary to listen to some spreeish : tale told in it to understand its p-w-.-r ( f 3r expressing ihe Iroaiy hugm.-rjus. d his :eature ie one of the aiiprMiin-: aiiprMiin-: ent in tne personal cbaractTt c: j inhabitants. I do not think the vrr-nacular vrr-nacular of any other iocauty can effer a para.iel to that of Lancashire la n.'ls 1 resp-ecL Add to it, that the people are, many of them, full of dry Latuvr. and naturaiiy see the funny side ol' things first, and yon may judge how queer some of the dialect narratives are. A short time ago I was in the neighborhood of Birtie, three or four miles beyond Rury. and a place well known around for the character oi' its inhabitant They are all more or icss related, for "th' Birtie lads" allow nobody no-body to go courtiug he lasses except ihose irom their owa neighborhood 1 A friend of mine was with me, and after a few hours' ramble amonj the hills, the inner man cailed for refreshment. refresh-ment. We entered an old fashioned public-house, and regaled on such a dish of ham and eggs as you only can get in Lancashire. Talking over the day's occupation, chiefly geological, werwere interrupted by a staiwart fellow, fel-low, who had been smoking and listening listen-ing meantime, with (for the art of personal introduction is here unknown) "Aw say, con yo' tell me huw htigh Adam wur? ' 1 must confess we had not felt sufficient suffi-cient interest in our first parent to he so far inquisitive; but. to see what was coming, I replied Quaker fashion : 'Why ?" "Becose," said he, "mean' another chap had a argiment, an' he swor as how Adam wur forty yard heigh.." "Well," said my friend, ''that's a doubtful question; some say he was forty-one." The interrogalor was not to be put down. "Ah," said he, "but this chap writ to the editor o t London 1'imc: an7 he sent word as they couldna' tell Adam's height, becose theer wur nobody theer for 't measure him !" JuhiE.Tuhljr. |