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'A GLOSTERZHUR ZONG ON THE KERLOCK. 



"The Kerlock plant 's a zite to zee, 



As a zhinea in the yields like gowld ; 

 But all yent gowld as glitters vree, 

 I wur' once by my veather towld. 



" Zo I'll teke a heow* an' cut un all up, 

 All out o' tha' Barley ground; 

 An' arter that I'd like to kneow 

 Whur' a bit o' nastt can be vound? 

 / 



"But a zays, zays he, as 't 'yunt no use 

 Vor to gwoo to a girt expense ; 

 Vor t'wull come ageun, whatever thee doos, 

 In a yur or two vrom yence. 



"But Pa'sson zays as every weed. 



Like the Turmuts and Whaet we seows, 

 Mus' all come up vrom a zort o' zeed, 

 Zo I wun't let 'un zeed if I kneows : 



" But rU teke a heow an' heow un all clane, 

 Right out o' tha' Barley ground; 

 Vor if I doant let un zeed, 'tis plane 

 Nat a bit o' nast can be vound." 



• AugUce Hoe. The root is the Saxon Heawan, to cut. 



t Nast. a generic term for dirt, appUed more particularly to weeds. Picking na.t, or brn^g 

 nit wiU m an picking couch, burning weeds, *c. The root of this word, ^^^-^^ " *°. J; 

 is n t entirely lost. Its primary meaning is that offiHU or dirt : a sense preserved rn the ad.ect^ve 

 nasty It has no substantive form in English. The Swedish has nesa. dishonour, shame ; and the 

 Old Norse, neies, shameful ; secondary derivatives from the same root. 



