William Barnes 
Poems of Rural Life [PDF ebook] 
In the Dorset Dialect

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. If this dexterous duncehood were universal, as it is not, my Dorset readers might well allow me to print all my verses in the English way of spelling.