Excerpt from The Sweepings of My Study Sweepings, although I must confess he hardly merits such a fa vour at my hands, for scolding nie as he does about my pronounc ing a hay-stack, a hay-rick, [i. E. A stack of hay, a rick of hay, ] and so forth, in the Old way, instead of accenting the first mono. Syllable, which is in the genitive case, and dropping, or easing ofi' softly, the second one in the nominative, as, ha'ystack, ha'yrick, &c., thus reducing the two terms to a Simple word. Vida, among the others, Todd's volume comprehending the letter H b'ut mind how you handle it, for be assured it's a weighty - LI had near gone the length to say, a heavy concern. 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.