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circulation or are dropped unconsciously, 

 and if noticed are apologised for. Heather 

 is ' yeth,' whorts are ' hurts,' among the 

 labouring people, and to go gathering 

 whortleberries is to go ' a-hurting.' They 

 say ' time agone ' for some time since ; ' right 

 away over ' to express distance, an appro- 

 priate phrase in a hilly country. 



But so complete is the superficial change 

 that even ' plough ' has been abandoned, 

 and is now used in the same sense as 

 elsewhere. By plough was originally meant 

 not the iron instrument which turns the 

 furrow, but the team that draws it ; they 

 said ' Take a plough and fetch a waggon.' 

 The implement was called a ' sull,' or 

 * zull ' — the plough drew the sull. The 

 fact of an agricultural population aban- 

 doning an agricultural term like this shows 

 how on the surface things are changed. 

 Yet on occasion they can speak the ancient 

 tongue. 



In wet weather a man was asked if a lane 



