Goodies in Yorkshire Dialect - Freepages

PREFACE.THE stories here presented have beenwritten from time to time for thepurpose of reading at concerts and entertainmentsinYorkshire. They are put upin book form now in response tomany requeststhat they should be published. I hopealso that they may be useful as a smallcontribution toillustrativeof the harmless and often un-humour of the natives of N.E.consciousdialectic literature, and asYorkshire. For almost all the stories arebuilt around humorous incidents whichhave come under the personal notice of theauthor. If a stray" chestnut"is found embeddedin the text I ithopewill begenerously overlooked.writers in Yorkshire dialect makeManythe mistake of insertinginitial aitches inthe spellingof words. I have tried to avoidthis error, knowingthat there isno initialv