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Excerpt from Dialect of South Lancashire, or Tim Bobbin's Tummus and Meary, Revised and Corrected: With His Rhymes, and an Enlarged and Amended Glossary of Words and Phrases oors were necessary, the spinner being often the tallest and the longest armed woman of the family. In those days there were some noble forms in the country, though Tim Bobbin did not immortalize one of them; a few may yet be seen, and as the spinner alternately drew out, spun, and wound up her thread, humming some indistinct words the while, she might not unaptly have been likened to one of those fate - dispensing beings who are said to Spin the web, and weave the woof, The winding sheet of Adam's race. 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.