Your cow there, Anne's a-come to hand
A goodish milcher. A. If she'd stand,
But then she'll steaere an' start wi' fright
To zee a dumbledore in flight.
Last week she het the pail a flought,
An' flung my meal o' milk half out.

J. Ha! Ha! But Anny, here, what lout
Broke half your small pail's bottom out?

A. What lout indeed! What, do ye own
The neaeme? What dropp'd en on a stwone?

J. Hee! Hee! Well now he's out o' trim
Wi' only half a bottom to en;
Could you still vill en' to the brim
An' yit not let the milk run drough en?

A. Aye, as for nonsense, Joe, your head
Do hold it all so tight's a blather,
But if 'tis any good, do shed
It all so leaeky as a lather.
Could you vill pails 'ithout a bottom,
Yourself that be so deeply skill'd?

J. Well, ees, I could, if I'd a-got em
Inside o' bigger woones a-vill'd.

A. La! that _is_ zome'hat vor to hatch!
Here answer me theaese little catch.
Down under water an' o' top o't
I went, an' didden touch a drop o't,

J. Not when at mowen time I took
An' pull'd ye out o' Longmeaed brook,
Where you'd a-slidder'd down the edge
An' zunk knee-deep bezide the zedge,
A-tryen to reaeke out a clote.

A. Aye I do hear your chucklen droat
When I athirt the brudge did bring
Zome water on my head vrom spring.
Then under water an' o' top o't,
Wer I an' didden touch a drop o't.

J. O Lauk! What thik wold riddle still,
Why that's as wold as Duncliffe Hill;
"A two-lagg'd thing do run avore
An' run behind a man,
An' never run upon his lags
Though on his lags do stan'."
What's that?
I don't think you do know.
There idden sich a thing to show.
Not know? Why yonder by the stall
'S a wheel-barrow bezide the wall,
Don't he stand on his lags so trim,
An' run on nothen but his wheels wold rim.

A. There's _horn_ vor Goodman's eye-zight seaeke;
There's _horn_ vor Goodman's mouth to teaeke;
There's _horn_ vor Goodman's ears, as well
As _horn_ vor Goodman's nose to smell--
What _horns_ be they, then? Do your hat
Hold wit enough to tell us that?

J. Oh! _horns_! but no, I'll tell ye what,
My cow is hornless, an' she's _knot_.

A. _Horn_ vor the _mouth's_ a hornen cup.

J. An' eaele's good stuff to vill en up.

A.