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We have many local variants of No. 1, of which the following may be 
taken as fairly typical examples :— 
(3) ‘We're come a Shroving, 
For a piece of pancake, 
Or a piece of bacon, 
Or a little truckle-cheese 
Of your own making.” 
(4) “A Shrovin’, a Shrovin’, 
I be come a Shrovin’. 
I'd like a nice meat-pie, 
An’ my mouth be ter’ble dry. 
A wish a wur zo well a-wet, 
To zing the viner vor a nit.” [nut.] 
(5) “A Shrovin’, a Shrovin’, 
We're come a shrovin’. 
A bit o’ bread, a bit o’ cheese, 
A bit o’ your fat bacon, 
Or a dish o’ doughnuts, 
Aal o’ your own makin’. 
A Shrovin’, a Shroyin’, 
We're come a Shrovin’.” 
t, or Zeelt. A kind of large oval tub, or sometimes a trough, used for 
salting bacon in. N. & S.W. 
It seems. ‘Sim to I as her bain’t gwain thur.” N. & S.W. 
Skillet. Add :—(2) A small pot with a handle, such as is carried by tramps 
to make their tea in. S.W. (Deverill.) 
skimmenton. 4dd:—Skimitin’ in §. Wilts. 
Skivver. Cornus sanguinea, L., Dogwood. So called, because it is used for 
_ making skewers. S.W. 
k-twisted. Inert, unenergetie. N. & S.W. 
Mang-up. Add:—(2) x». A slovenly draggle-tailed girl. N.W. 
li eket. Add :—(3)  “’Twur tored aal to slickets,” rags and tatters. S.W. 
@. Add :—S.W. 
lommacks. 4 slattern. N.W. 
Sloom along. To walk with an idle unenergetic gait; just the opposite 
we 
of “ swanking ” down street.—(Mr. Hammond Jones.) N. & S.W. 
