Samuel Laycock: Lancashire poems.


CONTENTS. ――♦―― Glossary of Lancashire Dialect
SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFE, by W. Trevor	ix.
SUPPLEMENTARY SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR, by James Middleton	xiii.
RECOLLECTIONS OF THE AUTHOR, by Sim Schofield, his Son-in-law	xx.
Poems and Songs in the Lancashire Dialect:
A LANCASHIRE CANDIDATE FOR THE LAUREATESHIP. (Read at the Christmas Dinner of the Manchester Literary Club, December 20th, 1892.	231.
A LITTLE BIT O' BOATH SIDES—Part First	131.
A LITTLE BIT O' BOATH SIDES—Part Second	133.
A RESPECTABLE MON	13.
A "SMART" WAY O' CURIN' DRUNKARDS	162.
A TRIBUTE TO THE DROWNED	109.
A TRIP TO GRIMSBY	145.
ADAM AN' MARY	151.
ALLIS TO' LAT'	181.
AW'VE HARD WARK TO HOWD UP MI YEAD	45.
AW'VE JUST BEEN A-LOOKIN' AT TH' SCHOLARS	61.
AW'VE TURNED MI BIT O' GARDEN O'ER	57.
BISPHAM	187.
BOWTON'S YARD	3.
CHARLES BRADLAUGH	199.
CHEER UP A BIT LONGER	63.
CHEER UP, IRISH BROTHERS	86.
CHEER UP, TOILIN' BROTHERS	127.
CLEAWDS AN' SUNSHINE	5.
COCK-COCK-AW-LAID	83.
COOARTIN' DAYS	7.
CURE FOR TH' TOOTH-WARCH	125.
DICK O' TH' MERRYDALE	81.
EAWR JIM	137.
EAWR POOASTMEN	197.
EIGHTEEN NINETY	141.
EIGHTY-SEVEN (Sent to Mr. Joseph Livesey on his 87th Birthday).	170.
FEIGHT FAIR	27.
FOOT PASSENGERS, KEEP TO THE RIGHT	15.
FORTY-EIGHT	104.
"G SHARP" AN' TH' BAND OF HOPE ORGAN	212.
GOD BLESS 'EM, IT SHOWS THEY'N SOME THOWT	55.
GOOD BYE, OWD YEAR!	139.
GOOD TEMPLARS' WAR SONG	155.
HEAW TO RAISE TH' WOIND	123.
HELP YO'RSEL'S, LADS	23.
HOMELY ADVICE TO TH' UNEMPLOYED	65.
IRELAND'S VICE-ROYALTY UNDERPAID	256.
ISAAC BRADSHAW	114.
IT'S HARD TO CEAWER I' TH' CHIMNEY NOOK	49.
JACK O' TH' NOOK AN' TH' LAN'LORD	148.
JIM LEE AN' TH' POOAST OFFICE CLERK	158.
JOE AN' ALICE : A Yawshur Tale	77.
JOHN BOOTH AN' TH' VICAR	143.
JOHN BULL. (Tune—"John Brown")	243.
JOHN BULL AN' HIS TRICKS	164.
JOHN PARKINSON, A MEMBER OF THE BLACKPOOL LIFEBOAT CREW	245.
LIFE	242.
LINES WRITTEN IN A VOLUME OF POEMS, AND SENT TO THE REV. ROBERT COLLYER, AMERICA	188.
LOINES READ AT TH' OWD FOALK'S TEA PARTY, held at Stubbins Vale Schoo', on Saturday evening, January 8th, 1870.	223.
MALLY AN' JONAS	19.
MARY AN' BETTY	97.
MASHERS	183.
MI GRONFEYTHER	226.
MI GRONNY	82.
ODE TO TH' SUN	31.
OH! THIS BOIL!	21.
ON THE DEATH OF JAMES WHITTAKER, THE POPULAR AND WELL-KNOWN VOCALIST	254.
ON RECEIVING A LETTER FROM A FRIEND, WHO HAD PREVIOUSLY WRITTEN ANOTHER ONE, BUT HAD NEGLECTED TO POST IT	247.
ONLY A POET	214.
OWD FOGEY	116.
OWD PLAYMATES	29.
POOR PUSSY!	204.
PRAYIN' JEMMY	135.
PROLOGUE : Written on the occasion of the Presentation to Robert Bickerstaffe on his retirement as Coxswain of the Blackpool Lifeboat, December, 5th, 1887.	175.
QUALITY ROW	70.
" SECOND VISIT TO	98.
READ AT A BAND OF HOPE MEETING AT SOUTH SHORE	238.
READ AT A MEETING HELD AT MOSSLEY, TO CELEBRATE MR. WILLIAM HEAP'S BIRTHDAY	235.
READ AT TH' "BONNY BRID'S" WEDDING PARTY, 8th Nov., 1886	102.
READ ON THE OCCASION OF A PRESENTATION TO EDWIN WAUGH, April 11th, 1887	228.
ROWL AWAY, THEAW GRAND OWD OCEAN	67.
R. R. BEALEY'S FURST CHOILT	93.
SAM BAMFORD	100.
SECOND VISIT TO QUALITY ROW	98.
SEWIN' CLASS SONG	47.
SHUT UP! YO' LIBERALS!	168.
SIXTY-SIX	112.
STARVED TO DEATH	72.
TH' "BONNY BRID'S" BIRTHDAY	207.
TH' COARTIN' NEET—Part First	193.
TH' COARTIN' NEET—Part Second	195.
TH' OWD BARBER EAWT O' WARK	53.
TH' OWD BELLMAN	160.
TH' OWD DUR SNECK	179.
TH' OWD PEDLAR'S GONE WHOAM	191.
TH' PEERS AN' TH' PEOPLE	174.
TH' PULPIT AN' TH' PFWS	120.
TH' QUACK DOCTOR	17.
TH' QUEEN'S VISIT TO LIVERPOOL, TO OPPEN TH' EXHIBITION	91.
TH' SHURAT WEAVER'S SONG	51.
TH' STORM AT BLACKPOOL	185.
TH' STRICKEN STOKERS	209.
TH' VILLAGE PEDLAR	129.
THANK GOD FOR O THESE BONNY FLEAWERS	88.
THANK YO', SUR! (On receivin' a Kesmas Goose fro' a Parson)	200.
TEETOTAL? OF COURSE AWM TEETOTAL	11.
THEE AN' ME	9.
THERE'S NO GOOD I' CEAWERIN' I' TH' DUST	43.
THINKS I TO MISEL (Read at a Harvest Festival in Blackpool)	153.
TO A CRICKET	246.
TO GEORGE HARRY BARDSLEY ON HIS EIGHTEENTH BIRTHDAY	111.
TO HENRY NUTTER, ON RECEIVING A VOLUME OF HIS POEMS	210.
TO MY BROTHER, JOHN, ON HIS SIXTY-FIRST BIRTHDAY	249.
TO MY DAUGHTER, BERTHA, ON HER TWENTIETH BIRTHDAY	202.
TO MY FRIEND, COUNCILLOR JOSEPH HEAP, BLACKPOOL	206.
TO MY FRIEND, EDWIN WAUGH	79.
TO MY FRIEND, ISAAC BARDSLEY	189.
TO MY FRIEND, SAMUEL ASHTON	221.
TO MY OWD FRIEND, THOMAS KENWORTHY	106.
TO MY SON, JOHN EDWARD, ON HIS BIRTHDAY	218.
TO SUPERINTENDENT JAMES BENT	118.
TO TH' OWD DERBYSHIRE BARD, JOSEPH COOPER	85.
TO POVERTY	25.
TO WILLIAM EDWARD (in reply to his "Words of Welcome")	95.
TOMMY O' DAN'S	252.
UNCLE DICK'S ADVOICE TO SENGLE MEN	37.
UNCLE DICK'S ADVOICE TO SENGLE WOMEN	35.
UNCLE DICK'S ADVOICE TO WED MEN	39.
UNCLE DICK'S ADVOICE TO WED WOMEN	33.
WELCOME, BONNY BRID	41.
BONNY BRID'S WEDDING	102.
BONNY BRID'S BIRTHDAY	207.
WHAT! ANOTHER CRACKED POET!	107.
WHAT AW LOIKE TO SEE	250.
WHAT IS HOME WHITHOUT A MOTHER! Lines on receiving a card bearing the inscription, "What is Home without a Mother!" the writer's wife being away at the time holidaymaking.	216.
WHAT'S TO DO 'AT THOU'RT LOOKIN' SOA SULKY, JOHN?	166.
WHAT'S UP WI' THEE, TUM?	59.
WRITTEN FOR A MEETING HELD AT GREAT ECCLESTON	74.
Poems and Songs not in the Dialect:
A FATHER'S LAMENT FOR HIS ABSENT SON	308.
A SEA-SIDE INCIDENT	260.
A SONG FOR SUMMER	285.
A STALYBRIDGE SUPPER HOAX	337.
A THORN GROWS NEAR THE ROSE	297.
A WINTER'S NIGHT AT BLACKPOOL	314.
AN AFFECTIONATE TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF MY MOTHER	290.
AN APPEAL ON BEHALF OF SUNDAY SCHOOLS. (Read at a Bazaar at Oswaldtwhistle	310.
AN APPEAL ON BEHALF OF A HOSPITAL FOR BLACKPOOL	344.
AN ESSAY ON A COW	313.
AN EVENING PRAYER	267.
AT THE GRAVE OF JOSEPH COOPER (The Derbyshire Bard)	316.
BETHESDA. (Read at a Meeting held to celebrate the Re-opening of Bethesda Chapel, Blackpool, February 16th, 1876	331.
BEWARE! FOR THE CLOUDS ARE GATHERING	306.
BLACKPOOL: LIGHT AND SHADE	264.
BRIGHT DAYS	282.
CHRISTMAS SONG	333.
DEAR OLD ENGLAND, GOOD-BYE. (Tune—"The Mistletoe Bough"	329.
GET IN HARNESS, YOUNG MEN!	351.
GOD HELP US	288.
HUGH MASON	342.
JOHN BRIGHT	262.
JOHN CRITCHLEY PRINCE	271.
JUBILEE SONG	327.
LINES WRITTEN IN MRS. FISHER'S ALBUM	271.
LINES ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG MOTHER	272.
MARSDEN : THE AUTHOR'S BIRTHPLACE	258.
MR' SOPKIN'S MISADVENTURES AT BLACKPOOL, (After Ingoldsby's Misadventures at Margate)	319.
MY GARDEN	261.
O GIVE ME A HOME IN SOME QUIET GLEN	270.
OH! THIS RAIN!	312.
ON THE DEATH OF ERNEST JONES	281.
ON THE DEATH OF THE LATE RICHARD OASTLER	317.
READ AT A TEMPERANCE MEETING, OF WHICH THE WRITER WAS CHAIRMAN	348.
REST TO-MORROW	293.
ROGER BELL	300.
SEASIDE PICTURES	298.
SUNSHINE AND SHADE	295.
THE EXCURSIONISTS' SONG	343.
THE REFORMER'S MONUMENT. (Supposed to be discovered on re-visiting the earth)	324.
TO A FRIEND ON HIS BIRTHDAY	296.
TO A LITERARY FRIEND	283.
TO A SON ON HIS THIRTIETH BIRTHDAY	268.
TO AN UNKNOWN FRIEND, on receiving from his some verses, entitled "Words of Cheer".	305.
TO HUGH MASON, ESQ., M.P.	302.
TO MY BROTHER, ON RE-VISITING MY BIRTHPLACE	353.
TO MY BROTHER-BARD, THOMAS BARLOW (Born on the same day as myself)	340.
TO MY FRIEND, S. WOLSTENHOLME	287.
TO MY FRIEND COUNCILLOR W. H. BUCKLEY, J.P., on receiving from him a number of old Manchester Observers, containing, amongst other matter, an account of the trial of Henry Hunt, and others	326.
TO MY SON ARTHUR, ON HIS TWENTY-FIRST BIRTHDAY	328.
TO UNCLE MATTHEW	323.
VERSES READ AT A JUBILEE TEA MEETING, held in the Congregational School, Stalybridge, on Saturday evening, April 23rd, 1857	334.
WHITSUNTIDE HYMNS. No. 1	274.
Do. No. 2	275.
Do. No. 3	276.
Do. No. 4	277.
Do. No. 5	278.
Do. No. 6	279.
Do. No. 7	280.
Prose Writings:
A WHOLESALE KESSUNIN' DOOMENT AT TORRINGTON	362.
HEAW BILLY ARMITAGE MANAGED TO GET A NEET'S LODGIN'S	355.
LANCASHIRE KESMAS SINGIN' FIFTY YEAR SIN'	369.
APPENDIX:
BISHOP FRASER AN' TH' COLLIER	381.
EXTRACTS FROM A "MUNICIPAL LAY"	384.
EXTRACTS FROM POEM TO A BROTHER BARD	385.
PRESS NOTICES	386.
THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS	379.
TO MY FRIEND JOSEPH COOPER. THE DERBYSHIRE BARD	383.