"Besides," he continued, "I'm no sure that I'm right inrinning—rinning! I'm norinning , I'm ganging; weel then I'm no sure that I'm right doing a witch's errand, whetherrinning or ganging, sae I'se stand still and consider it.[…]."
O! gin I were where Gadie[the name of a rivulet]rins,
1879, I. T. Tregellas [John Tabois Tregellas],Peeps Into the Haunts and Homes of the Rural Population of Cornwall, Netherton & Worth (Truro), Houlston & Sons (London),page 3,
I had a servant who had lived all his life-time within four miles of Plymouth, who told me of a circumstance which occurred to his mother, thus:— "Mawther ben out gatherin' nits, and when she kimbed hum she went to shet the shetters , and then she seed a manrin out of the dewr weth three spewns weth un, what he had stould, and away herinned, and my mawtherrinned arter un. 'Twas as fine a mewnlight night as cud be seed tew (too); an she cud see un stright on afore her; and hallowed tew she ded as lang as ever her wind beered up, andrinned andrinned; at laest sherinned un out of sight, and never goat the spewns she dedn't"
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page14
