The Norfolk Dialect

*Mauther.*—A word peculiar to East Anglia, applied to a girl just grown up, or approaching to womanhood. "Ipse eodem agro [Norfolciensi] ortus, a Dan. *moer*," virgo, puella, "deflectit."—*Spelman*. Spelman assures us, in endeavouring to rescue the word from the contempt into which it had fallen, that it was applied by our very early ancestors, even to the noble virgins who were selected to sing the praises of heroes; they were called *scald-moers*, q.d. singing mauthers! "En quantum in spretâ jam voce antiquæ gloria." "Ray spells the word *mothther*. "*P.* I am a *mother* that do want a servi…