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Excerpt from The Folk-Speech of Cumberland and Some Districts Adjacent: Being Short Stories and Rhymes, in the Dialects of the West Border Counties For the illustrations I have attempted of the speech of High Furness and its Westmorland border, I ask no such distinction. The dialect there, as in the adjacent parts Of Cumberland, is vitiated by an intermixture of that of the County Palatine, Of which Furness forms a portion; and asit is spoken, so, if written at all, should it be written. These appear here for the reason already assigned for the introduction of the Rhymes given in the dialect of Dumfriesshire. The work rests its claims to favourable consider ation entirely On its value as a faithfully rendered contribution to the dialect literature of the country. NO higher estimate is sought for it. The produc tion of its various contents has been an occasional amusement indulged in during some Of the intervals of leisure and repose afforded by pursuits Of a more important, more engrossing, and it is hoped, a more useful character, with which, had it in any wise interfered, it had not been proceeded with. Its composition has been a relaxation, not a task; a divertisement, not an occupation and had its success when published been deemed incompatible with these conditions, it had not appeared. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.