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Same as apples, excepting that 'summer fruit' is sold per 'measure' = 90 lbs., and winter fruit' per 'measure' 80 lbs. ; ELLESMERE.

Per quart

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Per heaped bushel, or

strike, or parts thereof

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DAMSONS.

SHREWSBURY

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1 1 Apples are sold retail in Oswestry market-per hundred-the method of counting them is a simple and expeditious one.

The seller takes three apples

in each hand, and throws the six into the buyer's basket-repeating this process 20 times, until the 'six score the hundred' is completed.

2 Damsons were sold in Shrewsbury market in 1877, for the extraordinarily high price of 1s. 2d. per quart; in 1845, a year of great scarcity, they fetched

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Market.

SHREWSBURY

CHURCH STRETTON

BISHOP'S CASTLE

LUDLOW

BRIDGNORTH

WELLINGTON

NEWPORT

MARKET DRAYTON

WHITCHURCH

ELLESMERE

OSWESTRY

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The weight of 'beasts' and pigs is estimated to the butcher by the score--beef so many 'score' per side or quarter, pigs so many 'score' the whole carcase. Calves and sheep so many lbs. per quarter. But the butcher sells by the lb. Weight by the stone is recognized, but rarely employed.

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Acre of Hops, about half a statute acre, being as much land as is required for 1000 hop plants; Ludlow.

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Rood rod, is a measure of 8 yds. lineal, employed for hedging, ditching, draining, &c.; Com.

The rood is also employed as the basis of denomination for Square Measure-a 'digging rood,' as for cottage gardens, potatoe ground, &c., is 64 square yards, i. e. 8 x 8; Com. Cf. N. & Q [5th S. x. 284].

Perch [paer'k], fencing or ditching, 8 yds. Lineal; CLEE HILLS.

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Lugg, a term in wood measurement = 149 sq. yds. of coppice wood; LUDLOW.

A Cord of Wood* measures 8 ft. long, 3 ft. 1 inch wide, and 5 ft. 1 inch high; Com.

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Faggots, 120 per hundred 6 'score'; CLUN; LUDLOW.

Coal, a ton =20 cwt. of 112 lbs. each at some pits.

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idem 120 lbs. (called 'long weight') at

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20 cwt. of 112 lbs. each; Qy. com.

Hand-breadth *

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3 inches-sometimes used for Hand

-a rather

loose expression, signifying approximately rather than exactly; LUDLOW.

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LUDLOW.

Com.

Boltin of (thatching) straw = 14 lbs.; WORTHEN, Minsterley.

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Cider hogshead = 100 galls.; LUDLOW; BRIDGNORTH.

SPECIMENS OF THE FOLK-SPEECH.

[PULVERBATCH.]

THE following is literatim et verbatim what Betty Andrews—a Church Pulverbatch woman-said when relating the account of how her little boy had fallen into the brook at Cruck Meole, where she was then living [1873]. But no written characters of any kindno want of stops''—can convey an idea of the story as poured forth by good Betty's voluble tongue-it took away one's breath to listen to it :-

"I'eärd a scrike ma'am an' I run an theer I sid Frank ad pecked i' the bruck an' douked under an' wuz drowndin' an' I jumped after 'im an' got out on 'im an' lugged 'im on to the bonk all sludge an' I got 'im wham afore our Sam comen in-a good job it wuz for Sam as 'e wunna theer an' as Frank wunna drownded for if 'e 'ad bin I should 'a' tore our Sam all to winder-rags an' then 'e'd a bin djed an' Frank drownded an' I should a bin 'anged. I toud Sam wen 'e tõõk the 'ouse as I didna like it.—'Bless the wench,' 'e sed, 'whad'n'ee want? Theer's a tidy 'ouse an' a good garden an' a run for the pig.' 'Aye,' I sed, 'an' a good bruck for the childern to peck in,' so if Frank 'ad bin drownded I should a bin the djeth uv our Sam. I wuz that frittened ma'am that I didna spake for a nour after I got wham an' Sam sed as 'e adna sid me quiet so lung sence we wun married an' that wuz eighteen 'ear."

COMPROMISE GLOSSIC VERSION.

"Ei ee'r'd u skr'ei'k mum un ei r'un un dhee'r' ei sid Frang k ud pekt i dhu br'uk un dou'kt undur' un wuz dr'ou'ndin un ei jum pt aftur' im un got out on im un lug'd im on tu dhu bongk aul slej un ei got im wum u'foa'r' our' Sam kum'un in u

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