Show tar IDIOMS OP THE mountaineers very old english used in parts of west virginia last summer some pel sons from the north were spending a month in Us mountains ot west virginia in a log cabin on the mountainside one morn tag as they sat on the porch admiring the views a little mountain girl in short blue calico dress and bright p sunbonnet bounced round the sida of the cabin howdy she said mammy wants to know if ou all dont want a pol e of sn apples this A the northerners asked in amazement A poke ot sn apples sissy repeat ed then evidently overcome with shyness she darted through the un before the newcomers could decide whether or not they wanted a poke of sn apples the expression got into the terns of the visitors until curiosity made one of them tal e her way to the little farmhouse I 1 will take a poke of sn appleq please she said fearing all the while the mountain woman would laugh in her face or think her an escaped luna tic but ver gravely the woman digap feared and soon returned handing the caller a bag of string beans the beans which snap in the fingers are called sn apples b the mountain aers and poke which is a good old word tor bag that has survived from the shakespearean Shakes perean english of the early english settlers youths corn |