The Works of John Trafford Clegg, the Owd Weighver

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Excerpt from The Works of John Trafford Clegg, the Owd Weighver: Stories, Sketches, and Rhymes in the Rochdale DialectThis dialect is rapidly dying. In the last twenty years its very roots have been cut away. Soon mere scraps and relics of it will remain - fossils on a beach, broken melodies of old times heard in a dream. But such of us as were taught to think and speak in this unaffected and virile tongue cannot wholly for get its music while we live. If we use its terms no longer they are woven into the texture of our hearts, preserving for us thoughts of youth, and love, and hope, of happy years, and maybe years of sorrow too we would not lightly forget, of dear ones dead and dear ones living, of kinsfolk, friends, and every tie that binds us to the irrecoverable past. The dialect may die, but it cannot die for us until we ourselves are dead. Love it with natural love, hate it with aesthetic hatred, as we may severally choose, we shall still alike be unable to escape from its subtle influences. Our first learning will abide with us to the last, and on the grave's brink we shall hear yet sounding the tones that have echoed through our native valley for a thousand years.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.