_To routle_, to rummage (like a pig in straw). _To terrify_, to worry or disturb. “Poor old man, the children did terrify him so, he is gone into the Union.” _Wind-list_, white streak of faint cloud across a blue sky, showing the direction of the wind. _Shuffler_, man employed about a farmyard. _Randy go_, uproar. “I could not sleep for that there randy go they was making.” _Pook_, a haycock. _All of a pummy_, _all of a moulter_, _because it was so very brow_, describing the condition of a tree, which shattered as it fell because it was brow, _i.e._ brittle. _Leer_, empty, generally said of hunger.—See German. _Hulls_, chaff. The chaff of oats; used to be in favour for stuffing mattresses. _Heft_, Weight. _To huck_, to push or pull out. Scotch (howk). _Stook_, the foundation of a bee hive. _Pe-art_, bright, lively, the original word _bearht_ for both bright and pert. _Loo_ (or _lee_), sheltered. _Steady_, slow. “She is so steady I can’t do nothing with her.” _Kickety_, said of a one-sided wheel-barrow that kicked up (but this may have been invented for the nonce). _Pecty_, covered with little spots of decay. _Fecty_, defective throughout—both used in describing apples or potatoes. _Hedge-picks_, shoes. _Hags_ or _aggarts_, haws. _Rauch_, smoke (comp. German and Scotch). _Pond-keeper_, dragon-fly. _Stupid_, ill-conditioned. _To plim_, to swell, as bacon boiled. _To side up_, to put tidy. _Logie_, poorly, out-of-sorts. VILLAGE SPECIFICS. _Cure for Epilepsy_ To wear round the neck a bag with a hair from the cross on a he-donkey. Or, To wear a ring made of sixpences begged from six young women who married without change of name. _Cure for Whooping Cough_ An infusion of mouse ear hawkweed (_Hieracium Pilosella_), flavoured with thyme and honey. This is really effective, like other “yarbs” that used to be in vogue. _Cure for Shingles_ Grease off church bells. _For Sore Throat_ Rasher of fat bacon fastened round the neck. _For Ague_ To be taken to the top of a steep place, then violently pushed down. Or, To have gunpowder in bags round the wrists set on fire. _Powdered chaney_ (_china_), a general specific. PHRASES _Singing psalms to a dead horse_, exhorting a stolid subject. _Surplice_, smock-frock. “Ah! sir, the white surplice covers a great deal of dirt”—said by a tidy woman of her old father. * * * * * “And what be I to pay you?” “What the Irishman shot at,” _i.e._ nothing—conversation overheard between an old labourer and his old friend, the thatcher, who had been mending his roof. * * * * * “Well, dame, how d’ye fight it out?”—salutation overheard. * * * * *