18 FOLK SPEECH OF YORKSHIRE AND NEW ENGLAND. 



Shanks ankles, legs. "Now then, spare shanks (thin 

 legs) get out of the gate." 



Smatch (smack) a flavor or taste. 



Snape (snub) to check, to correct, etc. 



Spigot a vent peg, in liquor barrels. 



Stagger to bewilder. "It staggers me, when I think 

 of what he is doing." 



Swap to exchange ; to barter. 



Swill to swallow greedily. "He swills down the cof- 

 fee and makes a switt-\.\ib of himself with the food." 



Tend "tends pigs, cows, etc., tends store." 



Tickle or Ticklish a delicate matter or job. "It is 

 rather a ticklish thing to do." 



Tree anything made of wood, as cross-tree, boot-tree, 

 axle-tree, etc. 



Ugly horrible, dreadful, disagreeable. "An ugly place 

 to drive in." 



Some of these words may be said to be common any- 

 where, but they are all used in East Yorkshire, and must 

 of course have been used there before they were used here. 

 I have not pretended to look very closely into the subject 

 but hope this may induce some one with more ability to 

 follow it up and give us a carefully prepared article. The 

 object of this is simply to call attention to the connection 

 of our folk speech with that of England. 



