such emphasis, and in such gruesome manner, that I could not help an
involuntary start and an instinctive glance towards the waiting-room
door to see whether it was open. Collecting myself, and pushing my
chair back a bit to put a little more distance between us, I resumed:
"You're one o' th' mad 'uns, are you?"
"Ay, aw am."
"You don't look like it, friend," I said.
"Ay, but aw am, though!"
"Well, and how do you happen to be here?" I inquired.
"Why?" he replied, "Aw'm th' asylum poastman. Aw come to meet th'
trains as brings th' poast-bags."
Just then the lilliputian train from the Asylum ran into the siding at
the station, and my mad friend, shouldering the letter-bags that he
had placed at the waiting-room door, got into the lunatic carriage and
I into the other. The engine whistled, and away we sped down the line
towards the abode of sorrow.
There was a pathetic humour in the conversation I had had with "one
o' th' mad 'uns," and my reflections turned upon the varying degrees
of madness that afflict not only the inmates of an asylum, but also we
their more favoured brethren outside its walls.
INDEX
A
Ab' o' th' Yate, 3, 18, 101
Abram, Mr, Historian of Blackburn, 61
Abram o' Bobs, 91
Ale-taster of Rossendale, the, 101, 103
Amen, Little, 99
Animal food, 66
Ann o' th' Kiln and Judie, 89
Apostles' Creed, the, 77
Aspirate, dropping the, 61, 62, 63
Astronomer, Crabtree, the, 21
Asylum, Whittingham Lunatic, 128
Authors in Lancashire Dialect, 2, 5
B
Badger's shop, a, 123
Bailey, Sir William, 49
Ball, Canon, 122
Bamford, Samuel, 112
Barley Times, 85
Belmont Churchwardens, 67
Besom Ben, 3, 16
Bill o' Jack's, 92
Blackley, meeting at, 18
Bobbin, Tim, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12
Bobbins, thou'rt short o', 49
Bocking Warp, 99
Boring for compensation, 73
Brandwood, witch o', 112
Brierley Ben, 2, 5, 18, 75
Bright, John, 47, 48
Brooks, John, of Sunnyside, 94
Brooks, Sam, Manchester banker, 94, 95, 96
Bull-baiting in Rossendale, 83
Burs-holder, 103
C
Chaucer, 4
Christmas soiree, girl at, 37
Clare, O. Leigh, Q.C., M.P., 53, 63
Clegg, Trafford, 5
Coal strike in Lancashire, 55
Coger's Hall, 118
Collier, John, 2, 3, 10, 12
Consecrating the footpaths, 63
Co-op. Mills, 69
Coud an' hungry, 17
Court Leet, 103
Court, Halmot, 102
Crabtree, the astronomer, 21
Crawshaw, Squire, 122
Crawshawbooth Sabbath breakers, 110
Cronje at St Helens, 64
Cross, Lord, 52
D
Daisy year, a, 40
Derby, Lord, 54
Devil of a dog, a, 96
Deyghn Layrocks, 98, 100
Dialect, antiquity of the Lancashire, 3
Dick o' owd Sally's, 92
Dick, Spindle, 101
Disraeli, Mr Bright on, 48
District of Lancashire Dialect, choicest, 1, 2
Doffers, Lancashire Factory, 80
Dog's tail, cutting off a, 97
Drufty Ned, 120
Duckworth, Captain, 122
Duckworth, Mr, M.P. for Middleton, 54
Dulesgate, 114
E
Eccles and his coachman, 38
Election questions, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54
"Elijah," the Oratorio of, 67
F
Factory Doffers, 80
Fair, Kirk, 106
Fiddler, the old, 16
Fielden, Hiram, 123
Fielden, Mr, M.P. for Blackburn, 62
Fitton, Major, 122
Fitton's visit to the Earl o' Derby, 20
Flea and elephant, the, 39
Foreigners, prejudice against, 74
Fraser, Dr, Bishop of Manchester, 34
Free thoughts by a Manchester man, 32
Friday night courting, 126
Fry, J. Pease, 53
Funerals of the working classes, 41
G
Gaskell, Rev. W., M.A., on dialect, 4
Gas-lighting, 79
Gentleman Taylor, 108, 122
George, Long, constable of Bacup, 87
George o' Bob's, 92
Girl at Christmas soiree, 37
Gower, 4
Great Unpaid, the, 107
H
Hall, Dr, 122
Halliday, Thomas, 31
Halmot Court, 102
Hampson, R. J., on Quacks, 28
Handley, Mr, landlord of the "Derby," 57
Handloom days, in, 99, 114
Happy Simeon, 99
Hareholme Mill in Rossendale, 85
Hargreaves, George, J.P., 93
Harland, John, 84
Head-borough, 103
Hell Clough, 111
Hit or Miss, 120
Horace, quoted, 60
Hornby, Mr, M.P. for Blackburn, 62
Howorth, John, 114
Humour as a lever, 73
Hunchback, diminutive, 98
I
Image-maker and Buddha, the, 38
In handloom days, 99
Inspection, humours of School, 76, 77
Insular prejudice, 74
Irish and Lancashire humour compared, 55
Isle of Man tripper, 39
J
Jammie, Long, brid-stuffer, 19
Jobber Pilling's feyther, 92
John's uncle, 42
Jonson, Ben, 4
Justice Willes, 61
K
Kay, Billy, and his parrot, 19
Keene, Charles, picture in "Punch," 63
Kiln and Judie, Ann o' th', 89
Kirk Fair, 106
Knot Mill Fair, 76
Krooger, Owd, 64
L
Lahee, Miss, 5, 20, 122
Lamb, Rev. Robert, 32, 77
Lancashire character, examples of, 2, 5
Lancashire Dialect, antiquity of, 3
Lancashire Factory Doffers, 80
Lancashire man abroad, the, 74
Lancashire memories, by Mrs Potter, 35
Lancashire proverbs, 39
Landlord of the "Derby," the, 57
Laycock, Samuel, 5
Layrocks, Deyghn, 98, 100
Lectures, Gaskell's, on Lancashire Dialect, 4
Leyland character, a, 79
Little Amen, 99
Lobscouse, Dicky, of Leyland, 79
Long George, constable of Bacup, 87
Long Jammie, brid-stuffer, 19
Lunatic Asylum, Whittingham, 128
M
Maister George, 93
Malaprop, Mrs, 63
Manchester clergyman and the sick woman, the, 33
Manchester Court Leet Records, 84
Manchester Ship Canal, 70
Massey, Lord, 122
Memories, Lancashire, by Louise Potter, 35
Methuselah, Old, 99
Milestone, the, 58
Mill, Stuart, 37
Milner, George, 96, 126
Mining village, stranger in, 27
N
Nab, Rondle o' th', 17
Names of recognition, 92
Ned, Drufty, 120
Nuttall, John, 86
O
Old Trafford County cricket match, 24
Oldham woman and the New Jerusalem, 33
One o' th' mad 'uns, 129
Orange-woman and Ben Brierley, 75
Oratorio of "Elijah," the, 67
Ormerod, Oliver, 2, 12, 16
Owd Neddy Fitton's visit to the Earl o' Derby, 20
Owd Jack's throttle, 17
Owd Pooter, 64, 66
Owd Sam and Mr Handley, 56
Owdham Chap at Old Trafford, th', 24
Owdham Chap on the tread-mill, th', 23
P
Parrot, Billy Kay's, 19
Pyckin' 'em out, you're, 56
Pigeon-flyer, the dying, 25
Pilgrim's Progress, nobbut a dreyam, 118
Pilling's feyther, Jobber, 92
Pioneers, Rochdale, 90
Pooter, Owd, 64, 66
Porritch powder, 17;
water, 85
Postman, Whittingham Lunatic Asylum, 128
Potter's Memories, Louise, 35
Power-loom breaking riots of 1826, 86
Preston House of Correction, 23, 79
Proverbs, Lancashire, 39
Put a notice up, 65
Q
Quacks, R. J. Hampson on, 28
Quiet sow, th', 39
R
Rachde Felley in London, the, 12, 13, 14
Recognition, names of, 92
Riding the Stang, 126
Riggin' o' th' world, th', 11, 114
Riots of 1826, power-loom breaking, 86
Roberts, General, 64
Robin o' Sceawter's feyther, 17
Rochdale Pioneers, the, 90
Rodger, Spanking, 99
Rondle o' th' Nab's cat, 17
Rossendale loom breakers, 87
Rough and enough, 40
S
Sall o' Croppers, 120
Sam, Owd, of Bury, 56
Samson, Strong, 99
School Inspection, humours of, 76, 77
Scotch and Lancashire humour contrasted, 55
Shakespeare, 4, 9
Shackleton, Jim, and boring for compensation, 70
Ship Canal, Manchester, 70
Shooting or worrying th' Boers, 58
Simeon, Happy, 99
Sixteen eggs for a shilling, 65
Smith, Jack, of Blackburn, 61
Socialist, a Lancashire, 59
Sond brid, the, 19
Spanking Rodger, 95
Spenser, 4
Spindle Dick, 101
Stalybridge man and his hat, 43
Stang, riding the, 126
Staton, J. T., 5
Steam pressure, 64
Stuart Mill, 37
T
Ta'en 'em as they come, 56
Taker-in, the, 115
Tattersall, Lord, 122
Taylor, Gentleman, 108, 122
Taylor, Richard, the Rossendale ale-taster, 101
Thrutch, the, 111
Tim Bobbin, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12
Tithing-men, 103
Touching th' moon, 68
Tramp and the stonebreaker, 58
Treacle barrel, the, 124
Tummus and Meary, John Collier's, 2, 10
Tyldesley collier and his bull-dog, the, 21
U
Unpaid, the Great, 107
V
Volunteer movement, 47
W
Walmsley Fowt, 18
Walton, Jim, the astronomer, 21
Ward, Artemus, 16
Warp, Bocking, 99
Waugh, Edwin, 2, 5, 16, 17, 37, 91, 114
Wheelbarrow, collier and, 28
Whittingham Lunatic Asylum Postman, 128
Wigan collier and his boy, 45
Willes, Justice, 61
Windle, Dick, 127
Witch o' Brandwood, 112
Working man going to the Isle of Man, the, 38
Worrying or shooting th' Boers, 58
Wycliffe, 4
Y
You're pykin' 'em out, 56
Young grindlestones, 91
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Inconsistent and archaic punctuation and spelling retained.