somebry

Updated: May 4, 2025

We came down the steps of the court into the fresher air of Friargate again. Our next walk was to Heatley Street. As we passed by a cluster of starved loungers, we overheard one of them saying to another, "Sitho, yon's th' soup-maister, gooin' a-seein' somebry."

Edwin Waugh - Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine