CARRION CROW. 243 



If a person falls asleep in the open it is said the " Craws 

 will peck oot his een," and in the rhyme of " Lazy Jim " 

 we have an exemplification of this supposition : 



Asleep, lazy Jim ligg'd, 



Like an awd tup at's rigg'd ; (on its back.) 



Bud ther cam' by what wakkens all sleepers, 



An awd black Daupee, 



Wheea seean oppen'd his e'e', 



Per he gav him a peck o' baith peepers. 



Jim loup'd tiv his feet, 



An' sairly did greet, 



"If Ah catch tha, thoo gray-heeaded sinner, 



Thoo'll nivver mair peck, 



Fer Ah'll wring tha thy neck, 



An' fling tha tea t' cat fer its dinner ! "* 



It is considered very unlucky for one of these birds to 

 alight on outbuildings ; the cattle are sure to die, and mis- 

 fortune will inevitably follow. It is also supposed that if 

 a Crow croaks an odd number of times in the morning it will 

 be a wet day, if an even number it will be fine. 



Of Yorkshire vernacular names the terms Craw, Carrion- 

 Craw, and Corbie-Craw are general ; Car-Crow is used in 

 Craven, and Ket-Crow in the West Riding, " ket " signifying 

 carrion ; at Sedbergh this bird is sometimes called the Flesh 

 Crow ; in Cleveland it is the Black-nebbed Crow, as dis- 

 tinguished from the White-nebbed Crow or Rook ; Gor Crow 

 is a West Riding term, Ger Crow a Craven one, and Cad Crow 

 one used in the East Riding, while at Flamborough it is the 

 Raven Crow. In the North and West Ridings are used 

 the terms Dob, Doup, or Dowp, in Cleveland Daupee, and 

 at Eavestone near Ripon, and Nunnington, the bird is Daup 

 Crow. In Teesdale we have Dowk, and in Craven Midden 

 Daup applied to this bird. In the Langdon Valley in 

 Bowland the shepherds call it Raven ; and in some of 

 the remote Cleveland dales it is ironically termed " Black 

 Pheasant." 



* This song was known in 1790, and was sung at " Mell Suppers " 

 so recently as 1838. 



