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Nouns also are made from these words, conveying 

 the idea of excellence or curiosity. Thus : Whacker, 

 thumper, cracker, nailer, nobbier, plugger, rattler, skelper, 

 slapper, slugger, spanker, &c. 



In fact, the dialect is a living, vigorous language, and its 

 life is shewn by its active versatility. If a certain word does 

 not convey the meaning required there are many others ready 

 to hand. 



EAST YORKSHIRE ENTOMOLOGY IN 1906. 



THIS year is the worst on record in East Yorkshire for 

 insects. "Sugaring" is a total failure. Mr. Chap- 

 man has been to Spurn, Driffield, and other places 

 " sugaring," and has only set one moth all the season. Mr. 

 Head of Scarborough reports that insects are very scarce 

 there, " sugaring " is a failure, and larvae do not pay for the 

 time beating for them, they are so scarce He has had 

 larvae die by hundreds with the hot dry weather. He has 

 had scores of insects pair and produce ova, but none of them 

 were fertile, owing probably to the cold late spring and hot 

 dry summer. Some insects were two or three months late 

 in coming off. — J. W. Boult. 



EAST YORKSHIRE CONCHOLOGY IN 1906. 



THE summer having been a very dry one, the collecting 

 of specimens has been very much hindered. I obtained 

 specimens of Paludestrina je?ikinsi in the ditch inside 

 the guard bank at Saltend, Hedon, last April. On the same 

 occasion I obtained on Saltend Common, under some stones, 

 several dead specimens of Cochlicopa or Aseca tridens, which, 

 according to Mr. T. Petch's " Land and Fresh Water Mol- 

 Iusca of the East Riding,"* has not been recorded. — T. 

 Dobbs. 



* "Trans. Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists' Club," 1904, page 151. 



