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A Specimen of the Bilsdale Dialect

or, Two Poems on Isaac Telltruth and Sammy Standfast [by John Castillo]
 

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In all the strates o' life, sez he,
Hooivver bare me cubbert be;
We' broon breead crusts, or wormwood tea
Or evan gole;
Whoorivver ah finds Christ t' be,
He sweetens all.