GR translation: Red River Valley

[James Kyllo]

I don't think the "light up" is necessarily to do with smoking here.
It's more akin to alighting, as in the dialect usage of the rest of
the sentence and means "stop".

J


On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:42 AM, Mike Jing <mikezjing at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> P69.33  Won'tchew light up and set fer a spell?
>>
>> Does "light up" mean "lighten up"?  What exactly is "set fer(for) a spell"?
>>
>
> light up a cigarette (or a reefer)
>
> set is "country (rural, farmer, cowhand, folksy) talk" for "sit", and
> "a spell" is in the same dialect "a while"
>



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