' vind a lighter lwoad,
Or else I'll vetch my voot, an' kick
The vooty thing athirt the road."
"Who is the man?" they cried, "meaeke room,"
"A halfstarv'd Do'set man," cried Bloom;
"You be?" another cried;
"Hee! Hee!" woone mwore replied.
"Aye, shrunk so thin, to bwone an' skin,"
Cried worthy Bloom the miller.

A LOT O' MAIDENS A-RUNNEN THE VIELDS.[F]

"Come on. Be sprack, a-laggen back."
"Oh! be there any cows to hook?"
"Lauk she's afraid, a silly maid,"
Cows? No, the cows be down by brook.
"O here then, oh! here is a lot."
"A lot o' what? what is it? what?"
"Why blackberries, as thick
As ever they can stick."
"I've dewberries, oh! twice
As good as they; so nice."
"Look here. Theaese boughs be all but blue
Wi' snags."
"Oh! gi'e me down a vew."
"Come here, oh! do but look."
"What's that? what is it now?"
"Why nuts a-slippen shell."
"Hee! hee! pull down the bough."
"I wish I had a crook."
"There zome o'm be a-vell."
(_One sings_)
"I wish I was on Bimport Hill
I would zit down and cry my vill."
"Hee! hee! there's Jenny zomewhere nigh,
A-zingen that she'd like to cry."

(_Jenny sings_)
"I would zit down and cry my vill
Until my tears would dreve a mill."
"Oh! here's an ugly crawlen thing,
A sneaeke." "A slooworm; he wont sting."
"Hee! hee! how she did squal an' hop,
A-spinnen roun' so quick's a top."
"Look here, oh! quick, be quick."
"What is it? what then? where?"
"A rabbit." "No, a heaere."
"Ooh! ooh! the thorns do prick,"
"How he did scote along the ground
As if he wer avore a hound."
"Now mind the thistles." "Hee, hee, hee,
Why they be knapweeds."
"No." "They be."
"I've zome'hat in my shoe."
"Zit down, an' sheaeke it out."
"Oh! emmets, oh! ooh, ooh,
A-crawlen all about."
"What bird is that, O harken, hush.
How sweetly he do zing."
"A nightingeaele." "La! no, a drush."
"Oh! here's a funny thing."
"Oh! how the bull do hook,
An' bleaere, an' fling the dirt."
"Oh! wont he come athirt?"
"No, he's beyond the brook."
"O lauk! a hornet rose
Up clwose avore my nose."
"Oh! what wer that so white
Rush'd out o' thik tree's top?"
"An owl." "How I did hop,
How I do sheaeke wi' fright."
"A musheroom." "O lau!
A twoadstool! Pwoison! Augh."
"What's that, a mouse?"
"O no,
Teaeke ceaere, why 't