Chapter M: Maister George, 93

Malaprop, Mrs, 63

Manchester clergyman and the sick woman, the, 33

Manchester Court Leet Records, 84

Manchester Ship Canal, 70

Massey, Lord, 122

Memories, Lancashire, by Louise Potter, 35

Methuselah, Old, 99

Milestone, the, 58

Mill, Stuart, 37

Milner, George, 96, 126

Mining village, stranger in, 27

N

Nab, Rondle o' th', 17

Names of recognition, 92

Ned, Drufty, 120

Nuttall, John, 86

O

Old Trafford County cricket match, 24

Oldham woman and the New Jerusalem, 33

One o' th' mad 'uns, 129

Orange-woman and Ben Brierley, 75

Oratorio of "Elijah," the, 67

Ormerod, Oliver, 2, 12, 16

Owd Neddy Fitton's visit to the Earl o' Derby, 20

Owd Jack's throttle, 17

Owd Pooter, 64, 66

Owd Sam and Mr Handley, 56

Owdham Chap at Old Trafford, th', 24

Owdham Chap on the tread-mill, th', 23

P

Parrot, Billy Kay's, 19

Pyckin' 'em out, you're, 56

Pigeon-flyer, the dying, 25

Pilgrim's Progress, nobbut a dreyam, 118

Pilling's feyther, Jobber, 92

Pioneers, Rochdale, 90

Pooter, Owd, 64, 66

Porritch powder, 17;
water, 85

Postman, Whittingham Lunatic Asylum, 128

Potter's Memories, Louise, 35

Power-loom breaking riots of 1826, 86

Preston House of Correction, 23, 79

Proverbs, Lancashire, 39

Put a notice up, 65

Q

Quacks, R. J. Hampson on, 28

Quiet sow, th', 39

R

Rachde Felley in London, the, 12, 13, 14

Recognition, names of, 92

Riding the Stang, 126

Riggin' o' th' world, th', 11, 114

Riots of 1826, power-loom breaking, 86

Roberts, General, 64

Robin o' Sceawter's feyther, 17

Rochdale Pioneers, the, 90

Rodger, Spanking, 99

Rondle o' th' Nab's cat, 17

Rossendale loom breakers, 87

Rough and enough, 40

S

Sall o' Croppers, 120

Sam, Owd, of Bury, 56

Samson, Strong, 99

School Inspection, humours of, 76, 77

Scotch and Lancashire humour contrasted, 55

Shakespeare, 4, 9

Shackleton, Jim, and boring for compensation, 70

Ship Canal, Manchester, 70

Shooting or worrying th' Boers, 58

Simeon, Happy, 99

Sixteen eggs for a shilling, 65

Smith, Jack, of Blackburn, 61

Socialist, a Lancashire, 59

Sond brid, the, 19

Spanking Rodger, 95

Spenser, 4

Spindle Dick, 101

Stalybridge man and his hat, 43

Stang, riding the, 126

Staton, J. T., 5

Steam pressure, 64

Stuart Mill, 37

T

Ta'en 'em as they come, 56

Taker-in, the, 115

Tattersall, Lord, 122

Taylor, Gentleman, 108, 122

Taylor, Richard, the Rossendale ale-taster, 101

Thrutch, the, 111

Tim Bobbin, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12

Tithing-men, 103

Touching th' moon, 68

Tramp and the stonebreaker, 58

Treacle barrel, the, 124

Tummus and Meary, John Collier's, 2, 10

Tyldesley collier and his bull-dog, the, 21

U

Unpaid, the Great, 107