Excerpt from West-Country Verses The present volume is a collection of the West of England verses published in my 'west-country Ballads and Verses' (black wood, and 'lyrics and Verses' (black wood, with some additions that have not yet been issued in volume-form. The dialect is mainly that of Devonshire, but some of the pieces are equally representative of that of Somerset, where the same old Wessex speech lingers. The chief difference between the two counties is in the tone and inflection of the vowel-sounds. There is considerable similarity also in the dialect of Dorset, as. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.