In reply to Dave Garnett:
Google (via a Flickr comment) suggests this for Flee'in Thing:
'On that second visit we enquired of Auld Will (Will Ritson, Landlord of the Wasdale Head Inn) if he knew of a climb we had done to the right of Mickledore which led to the top of Scafell. (The course has since been known as the North, or Penrith Climb.)
“No,” was the reply, “an’ if it’s t’ seeam pleeace as Aa mean Aa doan’t think ye’ve been up. Nowt but a fleein’ thing cud git up theer.”'
George Seatree, “Lakeland Memories” (R Scott, Penrith, 1923)