A CHARMING XMAS BOOK 



Yorkshire Folk-Talk 



WITH 



CHARACTERISTICS OF THOSE WHO SPEAK IT 

 IN THE NORTH AND EAST RIDINGS 



BY THE 



Rev. M. C. F. MORRIS, B.C.L., M.A. 



hate Rector of Nunbuvnholme, Yorkshire. 



458 pages, Crown 8vo, Strongly Bound in Cloth Boards, 

 with Gilt Top. 4/6 net. 



SECOND EDITION. 



With an Addendum to the Glossary. 



This work is the outcome of some years of research and study, 

 and of the co-operation of a few persons of like mind with the author, 

 who willingly fell in with his appeal to gather together any lingering 

 traces of Yorkshire phrases, modes of expression, and of incidents 

 suggestive of Yorkshire character. A considerable amount of useful 

 material of the kind came into Mr. Morris's hands, and he has, without 

 in any sense spoiling its native flavour, brought it into readable shape, 

 and presented it to the public in what may not unfittingly be called 

 scientific form. To widen the interest in the subject, he has shown 

 excellent judgment in availing himself of anecdotes and descriptive 

 touches, and this brightens the work, while enforcing its purport in a 

 very happy way. IS! o one who can claim kith and kin with this part 

 of England will doubt, after an examination of the volume, that Mr. 

 Morris must succeed in what he tells us is his aim- — namely, to awaken 

 a livelier interest in that dialect " which every true Y'orkshireman has 

 an affection for, and which, when spoken in its purity, sounds like 

 melody in his ears." Humour abounds as for instance in the anecdote 

 of the orchestral performance that took place in one of our manufact- 

 uring towns. " All went in splendid style," he tells us, " until the 

 fourth movement — an Adagio. In the middle of this the trombone, 

 all bv himself, gave out a sound almost loud enough to blow the roof 

 off. The audience were startled, while the conductor looked furious ; 

 and when the grand finale of the piece was reached, he took the trombone 

 player to task, and blew him up sky high for such erratic conduct. 

 ' Why,' said the man, by way of an apology, ' ah thowt it wur a nooat, 

 an' it wur nobbut a fly — bud ah play'd it! ' " 



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