INTBODUCTION. IX For the words marked N. H. (North Hants), or Tvith my initials^ I am responsible; as I am for all notes or remarks to which no initials are appended. I believe that all the examples illustrating words recorded by me are such as I have heard actually used as here noted. To the Beverend W. W. Skeat, Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Cambridge, at whose suggestion I undertook to edit this Glossary, I am indebted not only for furnishing me with a large portion of the material, but, above all, for perusing the proofs, and for many valuable suggestions which his superior philological know- ledge enabled him to give me. William H. Cofb. JBravuhiU, 1883. t I append two published specimens of the Hampshire Dialect. A letter to the Editor of the Times, from a poor man at Andover, on the Union Workhouse.^ Sir, — Hunger, as IVe heerd say, breaks through Stone Walls ; but yet I shoudn't have thought of letting you know about my poor Minus's death, but all my neibours say tell it out, and it can't do you no harm and may do others good, specially as Parliament is to meet soon, when the gontlofoko will be talking about the working foke. I be but a farmer's working man, and was married to my Missus 26 years agone, and have three Childem living with me, one 10, another 7, and toother 3. I be subject to bad rumatiz, and never earns no more, as you may judge, than to pay rent and keep our bodies and souls together when we be all welL I was tended by Mr. Westlake when he was Union Doctor, but when the Guardians turned him out it was a bad job for all the Poor, and a precious had job for me and mine. Mr. Payne, when he come to be our Union Doctor, tended upon me up to almost the end of last April, but when I send up to the Union House as usual, Mr. Broad, the Believing Officer, send back word there was nothing for me, and Mr. Payne wodnt come no more. I was too bad to work, and had not Yittals for me, the Missus, and the young ones, so I was forced to sell off the Bed, Bedstead, and furniture of the young ones, to by Yittals with, and then I and Missus and the young ones had only one bed for all of us. Missus was very bad, to, then, but as we knowd twere no use to ask the Union for notiiink cept we'd all go into the Workhouse, and which Missus couldnt a bear, as she'd bin parted from the childem, she sends doun to tell Mr. Westlake ^ ffaUiweiri DidUmary^ vol. i. p. xviii.
