It was entertaining to hear the home-spun lingo of the Somersetshire farmer, corrected every now and then, by the nice mincing tone of the Vestminster vench , who really vas vimsically vitty , and afforded us all a wast deal of amusement.

The former was a tall red-haired chap from Dumfries, and sung tastily enough in his country dialect, the following stanza:

"I say coachman! what town is this?" cried a gentleman passenger in a chesnut wig, as we drove to the door of an inn at one of the towns on our journey, "Thirsk, Sir!" answered the coachman, at the same time opening the coach door to say, "Ge'lmen we stop in this here town haulf an hour, if so be any on ye please to take som'w'at." All the passengers immediately moved out except myself, who being more inclined to doze than to take som'w'at, I placed my body in one corner of the coach, and my feet in another

When we got into the midst of its odour, Murphy could contain himself no longer. He trotted up beside me, "Well, to be sure, Master 'ear, this is like our own sweet country, sure enough!" -- "Indeed, then it is, Murphy!" said I. "Och! then it's it that is; I'll engage there's as elegant turf in yon bog, as ever was cut with fut." ( fut stands for foot , but, in lingua Hiberniae , is pronounced like cut .)
"By the piper that played before Moses," continued he, "I never saw, take it all in all, any thing so like the real sod as this is."

The Somersetshire farmer being the only one of the company at all acquainted with the country, answered the lady's question in the negative, and then commenced his own remarks upon those curious stones. He said there were a great many tales told about them, some of which he candidly confessed he did not put much faith in; but among the most correct accounts, the following, he said, was the first, for "various authors had published it in print as their sartin opinions."
"In days of ore , there was mortal battles, and zivil fights between the Pikes and Drids ; but at last, they all comes to a sort of an agreement about an intercession of harms ." ---- Here the little lady, who I felt fidgeting beside me, could no longer restrain her impatience to correct the farmer, who, in truth, was holding forth in a language quite unintelligible to the majority of the passengers. But the little cockney lady (for such she proved to be) explained that the gentleman meant "in days of yore, ven the Picts and Druids had civil vars amongst them , they at length agreed to a cessation of arms."
"Well, well , a zezation of harms like ," said the farmer, not wishing to be interrupted, "and zo the two parties appointed this here place, where them there stones lie, to make a general peace, and when they comes to the ground, one of the parties laid down their harms , which no zooner did the other party zee , than they attackted them, hammer and tongs, and killed them all to a man. Then after the battle they built a temple, and the stones in question, were the door posts."

Jemmy, a Yorkshire youth, solicitous about the health of his messmate, poked his head down the hatchway, and sung out, "I say, Molly! you're not hurt none, are ye , boy?" At this critical moment Molly had just pulled his wet shirt over his head; but, being in too violent a hurry, he forgot beforehand to un-button the wristbands, and from this neglect, Molly of course became so entangled in the sleeves, as to leave his naked person exposed to the curious eye of his messmate, Jemmy. " Lord, O Lord, Molly! what great breasts thee have got!--My Stars!!!-- Why , Molly, they be for all the world like the breasts of a maid !"
Jemmy uttered this in the true Yorkshire accent, and then scampered to tell Tom, Tom told Bill, Bill told Ben, Ben told Jack; so away went Tom, Bill, Ben, Jack, and after them the rest of the crew, to see what Jemmy had just reported, in the full ecstasy of agreeable surprise.

"I say coachman! what town is this?" cried a gentleman passenger in a chesnut wig, as we drove to the door of an inn at one of the towns on our journey, "Thirsk, Sir!" answered the coachman, at the same time opening the coach door to say, "Ge'lmen we stop in this here town haulf an hour, if so be any on ye please to take som'w'at." All the passengers immediately moved out except myself, who being more inclined to doze than to take som'w'at, I placed my body in one corner of the coach, and my feet in another

When we got into the midst of its odour, Murphy could contain himself no longer. He trotted up beside me, "Well, to be sure, Master 'ear, this is like our own sweet country, sure enough!" -- "Indeed, then it is, Murphy!" said I. "Och! then it's it that is; I'll engage there's as elegant turf in yon bog, as ever was cut with fut." ( fut stands for foot , but, in lingua Hiberniae , is pronounced like cut .)
"By the piper that played before Moses," continued he, "I never saw, take it all in all, any thing so like the real sod as this is."

The Somersetshire farmer being the only one of the company at all acquainted with the country, answered the lady's question in the negative, and then commenced his own remarks upon those curious stones. He said there were a great many tales told about them, some of which he candidly confessed he did not put much faith in; but among the most correct accounts, the following, he said, was the first, for "various authors had published it in print as their sartin opinions."
"In days of ore , there was mortal battles, and zivil fights between the Pikes and Drids ; but at last, they all comes to a sort of an agreement about an intercession of harms ." ---- Here the little lady, who I felt fidgeting beside me, could no longer restrain her impatience to correct the farmer, who, in truth, was holding forth in a language quite unintelligible to the majority of the passengers. But the little cockney lady (for such she proved to be) explained that the gentleman meant "in days of yore, ven the Picts and Druids had civil vars amongst them , they at length agreed to a cessation of arms."
"Well, well , a zezation of harms like ," said the farmer, not wishing to be interrupted, "and zo the two parties appointed this here place, where them there stones lie, to make a general peace, and when they comes to the ground, one of the parties laid down their harms , which no zooner did the other party zee , than they attackted them, hammer and tongs, and killed them all to a man. Then after the battle they built a temple, and the stones in question, were the door posts."

The Somersetshire farmer being the only one of the company at all acquainted with the country, answered the lady's question in the negative, and then commenced his own remarks upon those curious stones. He said there were a great many tales told about them, some of which he candidly confessed he did not put much faith in; but among the most correct accounts, the following, he said, was the first, for "various authors had published it in print as their sartin opinions."
"In days of ore , there was mortal battles, and zivil fights between the Pikes and Drids ; but at last, they all comes to a sort of an agreement about an intercession of harms ." ---- Here the little lady, who I felt fidgeting beside me, could no longer restrain her impatience to correct the farmer, who, in truth, was holding forth in a language quite unintelligible to the majority of the passengers. But the little cockney lady (for such she proved to be) explained that the gentleman meant "in days of yore, ven the Picts and Druids had civil vars amongst them , they at length agreed to a cessation of arms."
"Well, well , a zezation of harms like ," said the farmer, not wishing to be interrupted, "and zo the two parties appointed this here place, where them there stones lie, to make a general peace, and when they comes to the ground, one of the parties laid down their harms , which no zooner did the other party zee , than they attackted them, hammer and tongs, and killed them all to a man. Then after the battle they built a temple, and the stones in question, were the door posts."

Jemmy, a Yorkshire youth, solicitous about the health of his messmate, poked his head down the hatchway, and sung out, "I say, Molly! you're not hurt none, are ye , boy?" At this critical moment Molly had just pulled his wet shirt over his head; but, being in too violent a hurry, he forgot beforehand to un-button the wristbands, and from this neglect, Molly of course became so entangled in the sleeves, as to leave his naked person exposed to the curious eye of his messmate, Jemmy. " Lord, O Lord, Molly! what great breasts thee have got!--My Stars!!!-- Why , Molly, they be for all the world like the breasts of a maid !"
Jemmy uttered this in the true Yorkshire accent, and then scampered to tell Tom, Tom told Bill, Bill told Ben, Ben told Jack; so away went Tom, Bill, Ben, Jack, and after them the rest of the crew, to see what Jemmy had just reported, in the full ecstasy of agreeable surprise.