'Like shot out of a show'l,' to express extreme nimbleness, was another.

A comfortless, bare apartment was 'gabern;' anything stirred with a pointed instrument was 'ucked'-- whether a cow 'ucked' the fogger with her horn or the stable was cleaned out with the fork.

The verb 'to uck' was capable indeed of infinite conjugation, and young Aaron, breaking off a bennet, once asked me to kindly 'uck' a grain of hay-dust out of his eye with it.

When a heron rose out of the brook 'a moll ern flod away.' With all their apparent simplicity some of the cottage folk were quite up to the value of appearances.

Old Aaron had a little shop; he and his wife sold small packets of tea, tobacco, whipcord, and so forth.
Sometimes while his wife was weighing out the sugar, old Aaron--wretched old deceiver--would come in rustling a crumpled piece of paper as if it were a banknote, and handing it to her with much impressiveness of manner whisper loudly, 'Now you take un and put un away; and mind you don't mix um.