It is not surprising to find peculiarities in the common objects and customs of everyday life. Thus the eleven o'clock _snack_ under the hedge, known elsewhere as _elevenses_, is _nuncheon_; and so it comes to pass that a horse deficient in barrel is spoken of disparagingly as having "no nuncheon bag." A bradawl is a _nalpasser_, no doubt "nail-passer"; but a gimlet retains its name, and is not called a _twinnet_, as in some places. A _duckut_ is a small bill hook for cutting faggots; while a _fag-hook_, or _fagging-hook_, is a crooked stick used instead of the left hand in clearing a bank of nettles, etc., with an iron "hook." The new mown hay is termed _eddish_, while _tedding out_ hay is spreading it out in the sun after it has been mown. The hay-loft over the stable, often the sleeping place of the _fogger_ (_forager_), the man who tends the cattle, is called the _tallut_; the smallest pig in the litter, elsewhere either the "cad" or "darling," is invariably the _runt_; a dog's fangs are _tushes_, and a bird's claws _nippens_. In the poultry-yard and pigeon-cote the cock-bird is the _tom_; and some of the wild birds have their peculiar names assigned them. Thus the _wry_neck, or cuckoo's mate, is the _pe-pe_ bird, from its note; a _wish_ wagtail is a _dasher_; a woodpecker a _yaffingal_; and the golden plover a _whistling dovyer_. The little white moth that flits about in the twilight at sundown in the summer months is a _margiowlet_, and the steady, plodding mole, is either a _want_ or a _mouldiwarp_. Berkshire stands confessedly at the head of all pig-breeding counties, but that is no reason why the usual call of "choog, choog, choogy," at feeding time, should be changed to "teg, teg, teggy." The cattle call of _coop, coop_, is of course a corruption of "come, come"; and _coobid, coobiddy_, the poultry call of "come hither." The carter, walking on the near side of his horses, calls them towards him by _coomither_, or _coomither-awo-oy_, or more frequently _holt_, or _holt tóward_, with the accent on the first syllable of "toward," and sends them to the off side with the monosyllable _wug_. It is not often that the Berkshire man stoops to abuse, for he is naturally easy-going, stolid, and impassive; but a driven cow taking a wrong turn would inevitably be denounced as an _old faggot_, and a troublesome boy be branded as a _young radical_, though without any political signification attached. A simile would not be looked for amongst essentially an unimaginative folk, but _as 'pright as a dish_ is common, and singularly inappropriate.