maath

He says everything with once opening his maath; with one scratch of his wonderful pen, he writes more than I could spake in a lifetoime, if I were left to mysen, 'My God shall supply all your need.'

Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow F. Jewell

By-and-bye I hears one on 'em give aat a hymn, and I clapped my ear t 'th' key-hoil and listened for th 'words, and then I put my maath to th' hoil and sang with 'em, and so I kept on until they began to pray.

Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow F. Jewell

See what it has done for your neighbours -- how it has changed th 'lion into a lamb, th' raving sot into a sober and happy man; weshed th 'tongue and purified th' heart o 'th' blasphemer, and filled th 'maath of the dumb with songs of thanksgiving, see!

Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow F. Jewell

He'd hardly getten th 'words aght ov his maath when, as they wor passin some pighoils' at stood o 'th' roadside, th 'cauf made a dash at th' door o 'one' at wor nobbut just heigh enuff for it get in at, brast it oppen, gooin in an 'strippin off Dawdles, left him sittin i' th 'middle o' th 'rooad, wonderin who'd hit him wi a looad o' bricks.

Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877

"Tha'd ha 'thi een an' thi maath oppen if tha'd swallowed what aw have," he said, "for they'll oppen ewt."

Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877

Owd Jacob spit his teah aght ov his maath as sooin as he tasted it.

Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877

Joa hadn't heeard a word o 'this speech, for his een wor fixed o' Bessy. an 'his maath wor oppen as if he wor gooin to swallow her.

Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877

It matters little what yo do for a child at this day, yo're niver onny better thowt on, and when they've takken th 'bit aght o' yer maath, they'd have yor teeth if they could mak onny use on 'em.

Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877

"Oh! it's thi maath at's aght o 'order, mun," shoo sed; "get 'em into thee, they're sure to do thee gooid."

Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877

As they wor walkin on, Sammy put t'last bit into his maath an 'sed,

Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877