This work will be sent Post Free, on receipt of 13 Stamps, to any country place in the County, on application to C. H. SAVORY, Steam Press, Cirencester. It is customary for Authors and Editors to address their readers before introducing them to the work they are asked to peruse. The Editor of this little book will conform to the custom, and introduce his work most respectfully to his readers. In submitting the little volume for perusal it is believed that no other work containing examples of the dialect of the peasantry of the county can be obtained, and many of the pieces are difficult to procure, while much of the matter is original. The Editor would also mention the fact that the Government schoolmaster is abroad, and that it is likely the broad Saxon dialect now in use in the rural districts of the county will gradually give way to School Board |