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Achterneed auld baby Baloo believed bonnets broch Burne Caithness called child counties of Scotland dance looby daughter safe Dictionary door Dunrobin English evil eye Father Folk-lore French Gaelic ghost girl gives gold Golspie Golspie version Gomme Gomme's Green gravel Gregor Groat hand hare Henderson Here's three sweeps Hilli ballu Hogmanay horse-shoe Irish Joass Kilmaly kiss lady Lancashire land lass lily Loch luck lucky milk Miss Dempster moon Moray Firth mother name is Queen Newell night Northall original Pictish played poor widow pronounced PROVERBS Queen Mary rime ring roses round sailor's shirt says Scotland Scottish Shropshire side silver Similes sing Sir John Stainer song stand stanza stone sung superstition Sutherland Symondsbury tail tansy tells tunes turn yourselves unlucky verse wallflowers wash a sailor's witch woman words وو
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Page 71 - SEE a pin and pick it up, All the day you'll have good luck ; See a pin and let it lay, Bad luck you'll have all the day ! CLX.
Page 176 - Twas like an eagle in the sky. When the sky began to roar Twas like a lion at the door. When the door began to crack Twas like a stick across my back. When my back began to smart Twas like a penknife in my heart. . When my heart began to bleed Twas death and death and death indeed.
Page 318 - Views • in • Orkney • and • on • the . north-eastern • coast • of • Scotland • taken • in MDCCCV • and • etched . MDCCCVII • ', by the Duchess -Countess of Sutherland.
Page 309 - Lady: So much money I have not got, have not got, have not got So much money I have not got, my fair lady.
Page 86 - Lincolnshire rhyme runs : — Take out, and then take in, Bad luck will begin ; Take in, then take out, Good luck comes about.
Page 198 - Zeenty, teenty, my black hen, She lays eggs for gentlemen, Sometimes nine, sometimes ten — Zeenty, teenty, my black hen. [AC] She pronounces ' zinty, tinty ' and says the first word is sometimes pronounced
Page 59 - ... upwards. ... It is perfectly detached from any other hill ; and if it was not for its great size, might pass for a work of art." " Its length at top [is] about 300 yards ; I neglected measuring the base or the height, which are both considerable ; the breadth of the top [is] only twenty yards," Captain Burt, in his " Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland...
Page 23 - The youth returned, and he gave the shoemaker a hundred pounds for tocher. They went to rest, and when she had laid down, she asked the lad for a drink of water from a tumbler that was on the board on the further side of the chamber. He went ; but out of that he could not come, as he held the vessel of water the length of the night.
Page 8 - The good souls flocked like homing doves and bade him clear the path, And Peter twirled the jangling keys in weariness and wrath. 'Ye have read, ye have heard, ye have thought...
Page 120 - Green gravel, green gravel, your grass is so green, The fairest young damsel that ever was seen.