Th' black felly next gen Jud a wee bit o' a bang i' th' reet ee, an Jud git as weild as weild, an hit reet aht, but some hah he couldna git a gradely bang at th' black mon. At-aftur two or three minutes th' black felly knocked Jud dahn, an t'other chap coom and picked him up, an' touch'd Jud's faace wi' th' spunge everywheer wheer he'd getten a bang, but th' spunge had getten a gurt lot o' red ruddle on it, so that it made gurt red blotches upo' Jud's faace wheer it touched it; an th' foaks shaouted and shaouted, "Hooray, Jud! Owd mon! at em agen!" An Jud let floy a good un, an th' mon wi' th' spunge had to pick th' blackeymoor up this toime an put th' ruddle upo' his faace just at-under th'ee. "Hooray, Jud! hooray, owd mon!" shaouted Jock Carter o' Runjer; "tha'rt game, if tha'rt owd!" Just at that vary minit Jud's weife, bad as hoo were wi' th' rheumatic, pushed her roo{a}d through th' foaks, and stood i' th' frunt o' th' show. "Go it agen, Jud! here's th' weife coom t'see hah gam tha art!" shaouted Jonas. Jud turn'd rahnd an gurned at th' frunt o' th' show wi' his faace aw ruddle. "Tha girt soo! I'll baste thi when aw get thi hwom, that aw will!" shaouted Betty Bresskittle; "aw wunder tha artna ashamed o' thisen, to stond theer a-feightingk th' deevil hissel!" Notes.--_Jud_, for George; _leet_, light; _bowd_, bold; _dandycock_, Bantam cock; _gradely_, proper; _gen_, gave; _owd_, old; _reet ee_, right eye; _git_, got; _as weild as weild_, as wild as could be; _aht_, out; _at-aftur_, after; _gurt_, great; _em_, him; _floy_, fly; _Runjer_, Ringway; _game_ (also _gam_), full of pluck; _hoo_, she; _rooad_, road, way; _gurned_, grinned; _soo_, sow (term of abuse); _hwom_, home; _thisen_, thyself. EASTERN (Group 2): N. ESSEX. The following extract is from _John Noakes and Mary Styles_, by Charles Clark, of Great Totham; London, 1839. Reprinted for the E.D.S., 1895. As Great Totham is to the North of Maldon, I take this specimen to belong to Prof. Wright's "Division 2" rather than to the S.W. Essex of "Division 5." The use of _w_ for initial _v_ occurs frequently, as in _werry_, very, etc. At Tottum's Cock-a-Bevis Hill, A sput surpass'd by few, Where toddlers ollis haut to eye The proper pritty wiew, Where people crake so ov the place, Leas-ways, so I've hard say; An' frum its top yow, sarteny, Can see a monsus way. But no sense ov a place, some think, Is this here hill so high,-- 'Cos there, full oft, 'tis nation coad, But that don't argufy. As sum'dy, 'haps, when nigh the sput, May ha' a wish to see 't,-- From Mauldon toun to Keldon 'tis, An' 'gin a four-releet. At Cock-a Bevis Hill, too, the Wiseacres show a tree Which if you clamber up, besure, A precious way yow see. I dorn't think I cud clime it now, Aldoe I uster cud; I shudn't warsley loike to troy, For gulch cum down I shud.