19. What's up wi' thee, Tum? 20. Dear Old England, Good Bye. 21. Heaw to Raise th' Woind. 22. John Booth an' th' Vicar. 23. Jooa an' Ailse-A Yawshire Tale. 24. A Peep at Daisy Nook. 25. Changes sin' aw wur a Lad. 26. Cheer up, Toilin' Brothers. 27. Uncle Dick's Advoice to Sengle Women. 28. Uncle Dick's Advoice to Wed Women. 29. Uncle Dick's Advoice to Sengle Men. 30. Uncle Dick's Advoice to Wed Men. 31. Ode to the Sun. 32. Feight Fair. 33. Cure for th' Toothwarch. 34. Trip to Grimsby. 35. Owd Playmates. 36. Jack o' th' Nook an' th' Lan'lord. 37. George: a Rap at Lads stonding at Street Corners. 38. Missis Grundy. 39. Joe Turtledove's Visit to Blackpool. 40. Tommy o' Dan's. 41. Help Yoresel's Lads. 42. The Mechanic's o' Setturday Neet. 43. An Ode to th' Ocean. 1d. each.

A Wholesale Kessunin' Dooment at Torrington. By SAMUEL LAYCOCK. Blackpool. 8vo, pp. 8.

Learning to sing for Charity Sermons. [By DONALDSON] Anony

mous.

Leatherhead Tea. [By J. HARRISON.] Manchester. Broadside. Lebby Beck Dobby. [By J. P. MORRIS.] Anonymous.

Lines t' th' Memory o' Owd Johnny Young Oglon! Blackburn: W. Millar. Broadside.

L. (M. R.). See LAHEE (M. R.)

LONGWORTH (D.).

4th ed.

The Visit of Mr and Mrs Jeremiah Grubb and family to Blackpool; their adventures and misadventures. By D. LONGWORTH. Preston. 8vo, pp. 38. 3d.

MANCHESTER GUARDIAN.

At the commencement of 1874 this newspaper began a department of Local Notes and Queries, in which many points relating to the dialect have been discussed and elucidated, the contributors including the Rev. John Davies, the Rev. W. W. Skeat, the late T. T. Wilkinson and many others.

MEADOWS (T.).

Ashburner's New Vocal and Poetic Repository: a collection of favourite Songs and poetic fugitive pieces, selected for their merit or whimsicality, and not included in the Thespian Gleanings (with many originals) by Queery Queerum, Esq., A.S.S., Confidential Secretary to the Lord Chief Justice Joker. Ulverston, printed by George Ashburner, 1807. 12mo., pp. 216. This selection, compiled by T. MEADows, the Comedian, contains at p. 201 Mon at Mester Grundy's.' Matty Hickleton's Dream; Comic Recitation in the Lanky Dialect. Blackburn: W. Millar. Broadside.

MELLOR (J. W.).

Aw'll ne'er be Fuddled ogen. By Junior.

side.

Manchester. Broad

Little Dick. By JUNIOR. Denton: W. H. Knowles. Broadside. The Load fro' off mi Mind is Ta'en. By Junior. Manchester. Broadside. Anonymous.

Poems in the Lancashire Dialect, by the Author of Uncle Owdem. Manchester, 1865. 12mo, pp. 34. Anonymous.

CONTENTS.-Eawr Ralph.-Thea'rt Come Whoam Fuddled Again.—Aw'll Never be Fuddled again.-Love Thowts.-Eawr Jack.-Little Dick.-Thea'rt Sixty Year Owd To-Day.-Matty, Lass.-Ther's Summut at Troubles mi Mind. The Load from off mi Mind is Ta'en.-Owd Times.-Yo' Women.— A Hard Schoo.-A Happy New Year to Yo o'.

Stories and Rhymes: a Book for the Fireside. By the author of Uncle Owdem's Tales, Poems in the Lancashire Dialect, &c. Manchester [1869]. 8vo, pp. 123.

CONTENTS.-Christmas and the New Year.-The Bellringer of Featherstone. -A Christmas Song.-Winter.-The Captain's Thrush.-That Christmas Party.-Uncle Pewter's Musings, and a Leaf from his Life.-Little Robin.— The Dance.-Black Heads of Hair and Light Ones; or Letting in the New Year.-Snow.-A Night Ride.-A Happy New Year.

Contains scarcely any matter in the Lancashire Dialect.

Uncle Owdem's Tales in the Lancashire Dialect. Manchester, 1865. 8vo, pp. 33.

CONTENTS.-A Queer Sooart ov a Boggart.-Bobby Hewart.-Sam's Adventure wi' Peg o' Lanthern.-My Uncle Jammie.—A Tale of a Brunfoire.— Skinny Dick.

-Another edition. 1867. 8vo, pp. 32.

MILLAR (W.).

Owd Mally an' John o'er a Kessmus Goose. By BILLY SHUTTLE [Wm. Millar]. Blackburn: W. Millar. Broadside.

MORRIS (J. P.).

A Glossary of the Words and Phrases of Furness (North Lancashire). With illustrative Quotations, principally from the Old Northern Writers. By J. P. MORRIS, F.A.S.L., Corr. Mem. Anth. Soc. of Paris. London and Carlisle, 1869. 8vo, pp. xvi. 114.

T' Invasion o' U'ston. A Sketch in the Furness Dialect. [By J. P. MORRIS.] Carlisle, 1867. 8vo, pp. 7.

T' Lebby Beck Dobby. A Sketch in the Furness Dialect. [By J. P. MORRIS.] Carlisle, 1867. 8vo, pp. 8. Anonymous.

'A North Lancashire Song.' Notes and Queries.' 4th S. vii. 428 (May 20th, 1871).-J. P. M.

The North Lonsdale Magazine and Lake District Miscellany; a monthly serial of past and current local literature and news. Conducted by J. P. MORRIS, F.A.S.L. Demy 8vo. Ulverston, 1866, &c.

In Sixpenny parts of 32 pp.; Vol. I contains 8 parts, July, 1866-Feb. 1867.

It contains some pieces in the Furness and Cumberland dialects.-J. P. M. T' Siege o' Brou❜ton. A Sketch in the Furness Dialect. By a Native [J. P. MORRIS]. Carlisle, 1867. 8vo, pp. 7.

M. R. L. See LAHEE (M. R.).

MULLINS (THOS.).

Colleen's Warning: a Lancashire Song. Manchester. 1d.

Good Bye to Owdham_Teawn: a Lancashire Song. By THOMAS MULLINS. Manchester. Broadside. 1d.

Johnny of the Brook: a Rural Story of Lancashire Life. Manchester. 8vo. 3d.

Th' Owd Lone: a Lancashire Song.

side.

Manchester.

1d.

Broad

Thrums from the Spindle. Manchester. 8vo, pp. 32. 3d.
CONTENTS.-Rimner's Smithy.-The Poacher of Styperson.-A May Morn-
ing's Ramble in Boggart Hole Clough.-Ben Butterworth an' Fossil Jim; or,
Heaw to Live Contented. By J. CHARLESWORTH.

NIMMO (JAPHET).

Rhymes for the Times: By JAPHET NIMMO, Esq., M.N.S. [pseudonym?]. Manchester: A. Heywood, 1852. 8vo. pp. 24. Contains an Anti-kurn-law sung" to the tune of Tinker's Gardens.

NODAL (J. H.).

Transactions of the Manchester Literary Club. The Dialect and Archaisms of Lancashire: being the first report of the Glossary Committee of the Manchester Literary Club. By J. H. NODAL. Manchester: 1873. 8vo, pp. 24.

See also under SPHINX.

NOTES AND QUERIES.

This periodical has from time to time contained articles on Lancashire words, ballads, &c.

Oldham Recruit (When I're a young lad, &c.). Manchester. Street

broadside.

OSLER (C. H.). See HEYWOOD.

ORMEROD (O.).

O Ful, tru, un pertikler okeawnt o bwoth wat aw seed un wat aw yerd, we gooin too the Greyt Eggshibishun, e Lundun, Un o greyt deyle o Hinfurmashun besoide, wele kalkilated fur to giv thoose foke gradely hinseet into things, as hassent ad nathur Toime nor brass fur to goo un see fur thersels; kontaining loikewoise o Dikshunary manefakturt_fare o purpus for thoose as ur noan fur larnt. O Felley fro Rachde. O fur Sixpunze. Furst Edishun. Rachde, 1851. 8vo, pp. 60.

Ве

O ful, tru, un pertikler okeawnt o bwoth wat aw seed un wat aw yerd we gooin' to th' Greyt Eggshibishun o Lundun, kontaining loikewoise o Dikshunayre manefakturt fare o purpus fur thoose us ur noan fur larn't be O Felley fro Rachde. Thurd edishun, Rachde (Wrigley un Son), 1856. 12mo, pp. 87. With illustrations by F. J. Shields.

O Full true un pertikler okeawnt o wat me un maw mistris seede un yerd wi gooin to th' Greyte Eggshibishun e' Lundun e' eyghtene hundurth un sixty two, printed oer agen fro th' Rachde Observer oppokeawnt o so monny foke axin for it, 'lustrayted wi' o rooke o pratty pikters; containing loikewoise o Dikshunayry, same loike as aw gan yo e' me tuther buke, nobbut raythur iv oather bigger yo knone, be O Felley Fro Rachde. Rachde, 1864. 8vo, pp. viii. 108. illustrations by F. Holding.

The

OLDBUCK (JONATHAN), a pseudonym of JOHN HARLAND. See under Country Words.

Owdem (Uncle). See MELLOR (J. W.).

Owd Jim's Opinion, &c. [By DONALDSON] Anonymous.

Owd Linderinbant. See BRIERLEY (B.).

Owd Twist's Trip to Blackpool. [By DONALDSON] Anonymous. Owdham Streets at dinner Time. (In Owdham Streets at dinner time.) Manchester. Street broadside.

Owd Mally and John, or the Kesmass Goose. By BILLY SHUTTLE. [W. Millar.] Manchester. Broadside. 1d.

Owd Ned's a rare Strong Chap. (When I liv'd a whoam, &c.) [Manchester. Street broadside.] The author is unknown, the song has been constantly reprinted since about 1797.

Owd Wisdom. See STATON (J. T.).

Owd Yem un his Five Daughters. [By M. R. LAHEE.] Anony

mous.

PARR (R.).

Shaving done here on the shortest notice versus Yeds wi' summut in um: a Comic Sketch.

pp. 15.

By RALPH PARR. Manchester.

Paul Bobbin. See BUTTERWORTH (J.).

PEACOCK (R. B.).

8vo,

A Glossary of the dialect of the hundred of Lonsdale, co. Lancaster. Together with an Essay on the dialects of the Six Northern Counties of England. By the late R. B. PEACOCK; ed. by the Rev. J. C. Atkinson. 8vo, pp. i-viii, 1–95, and 1–32. [In the transactions of the London Philological Society.] London, Asher and Co., 1869.

PHIZACKERLEY (J.).

The Song of Solomon in the North Lancashire Dialect, as spoken North of the Wyre. By JAMES PHIZACKERLEY. 16mo. 1860. Only 250 copies printed, for H. H. Prince L. Lucien Bonaparte.

PICTON (J. A.).

South Lancashire Dialect. By J. A. PICTON, F.S.A., Fellow of the Philological Society. Extracted by permission from the Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool. Liverpool: Printed for Private Circulation. 1865. 8vo.

Poems in the Lancashire Dialect.

mous.

Precursor. See ROBERTS (MARY).
PROCTER (R. W.).

[By J. W. MELLOR.] Anony

The Barber's Shop. By RICHARD WRIGHT PROCTER. With Illustrations by William Morton. "Trifles light as (h)air."-Shakespeare. Manchester: Thomas Dinham & Co.; London: sold by Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1856. 8vo., pp. vii., 128.

Gems of Thought and Flowers of Fancy. Edited by RICHARD

WRIGHT PROCTER. London [Stokesley printed], 1855. 8vo, pp. xv. 428. With Frontispiece.

Contains a great number of poems by Lancashire authors. They are indicated by an asterisk in the index, and include a few pieces in the dialect. Prologue Spoken on the Evening of Wednesday, January 23rd, 1856. By the Astonishing Johnny Newcome. 4to. 2 leaves. Queer Supper. [By DONALDSON] Anonymous.

Queery Queerum, A.S.S. See MEADOWS (T.).

Quite Dickey Tale provin. [By DONALDSON] Anonymous.

Rambles in Owdham, and peep into the Workshops (When I'd finisht my work, last Saturday at neet). Manchester.

side.

RAMSBOTTOM (J.).

Street broad

Phases of Distress: Lancashire Rhymes. Edited by a Lancashire Lad (JOHN WHITTAKER). Manchester, 1864. 12mo, pp. 105. 18.

CONTENTS.-Preface.-Proem.-The Factory Lass.-The Pleasures o' Whoam.-Eawt o' Wark.-Philip Clough's Tale.-Good News.-Afther Thowt.-The Wife's Advice.-Takin' Stock.-Th' Owd Pedlar.-Preawd Tum's Prayer.-A Letter o' Thanks.-Frettin'.-Comfortin'.-Gooin' t' Schoo'. -Feighrside Chat. Lancashire Emigrants.-I. Farewell.-II. The Mother's Dream.

RAWCLIFFE (R.).

Cherley Shepsterd; or the Mon as couldn'd ged Wed!! Blackburn: W. Millar. Broadside.

y Owd Blackin' Bill. By R. RAWCLIFFE. Blackburn: W. Millar. Broadside.

Raychel, put thi bonnet on. Manchester. Street broadside.

RICHARDSON (GEorge).

The Ghost of Tim Bobbin. By Judd o' Ike's o' Jack's. 1850. 8vo, pp. 16. 18.

A Tale in Rhyme for Christmas Time. [GEORGE RICHARDSON.] Manchester,

This is an attack on Bamford's 'Tim Bobbin fettlet an' made greadly.' It contains also Tim Bobbin's Grave, by SAMUEL BAMFORD; Sequel to Tim Bobbin's Grave by H. O. Shaw; Ale versus Physic by ELIJAH RIDINGS; Th' Ballies, a true Lancashire Story, by JOHN BOLTON ROGERSON

RIDINGS (ELIJAH).

The Lancashire Muse; containing humourous specimens of the Lancashire Dialect. By ELIJAH RIDINGS, Author of the Village Muse,' etc., and other Writers. Manchester. pp. 32. Contents:Tim Bobbin's Prologue, by J. COLLIER. Newton Heath Rhymes, by E. RIDINGS. Ale versus Physic, by Ditto. Tim Bobbin Grave, by S. Bamford. Dr Pegg's Advice, by E. RIDINGS. Hopper hop't eat, and limper limp't in, by Ditto. Sequel to Tim Bobbin Grave, by H. O. SHAW. Jones' Ramble to Karsy moor Races, by M. WILSON. Johnny Green's description of Tinkers' Gardens, by A. WILSON. Johnny Green's Wedding, by Ditto. Th' Ballies, by J. B. ROGERSON. Epitaph on Alexander Wilson, by E. RIDINGS. Epitaph for a Rural Cemetery, by Ditto.

The Village Festival, and other Poems. Manchester, 1848. 18mo.