language_detector 0.1.0
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- data/README.rdoc +24 -0
- data/Rakefile +18 -0
- data/VERSION +1 -0
- data/lib/language_detector.rb +232 -0
- data/lib/model-fm.yml +52504 -0
- data/lib/model-tc.yml +53985 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/afrikaans.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/albanian.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/amharic-utf.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/arabic-iso8859_6.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/arabic-windows1256.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/armenian.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/basque.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/belarus-windows1251.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/bosnian.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/breton.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/bulgarian-iso8859_5.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/catalan.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/chinese-big5.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/chinese-gb2312.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/croatian-ascii.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/czech-iso8859_2.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/danish.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/dutch.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/english.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/esperanto.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/estonian.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/finnish.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/french.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/frisian.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/georgian.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/german.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/greek-iso8859-7.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/hebrew-iso8859_8.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/hindi.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/hungarian.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/icelandic.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/indonesian.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/irish.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/italian.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/japanese-euc_jp.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/japanese-shift_jis.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/korean.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/latin.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/latvian.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/lithuanian.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/malay.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/manx.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/marathi.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/mingo.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/nepali.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/norwegian.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/persian.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/polish.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/portuguese.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/quechua.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/romanian.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/rumantsch.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/russian-iso8859_5.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/russian-koi8_r.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/russian-windows1251.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/sanskrit.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/scots.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/scots_gaelic.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/serbian-ascii.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/slovak-ascii.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/slovak-windows1250.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/slovenian-ascii.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/slovenian-iso8859_2.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/spanish.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/swahili.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/swedish.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/tagalog.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/tamil.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/thai.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/turkish.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/ukrainian-koi8_u.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/vietnamese.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/welsh.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/textcat_ngrams/yiddish-utf.lm +400 -0
- data/lib/training_data/ar-utf8.txt +54 -0
- data/lib/training_data/bg-utf8.txt +26 -0
- data/lib/training_data/cs-utf8.txt +48 -0
- data/lib/training_data/da-utf8.txt +159 -0
- data/lib/training_data/de-utf8.txt +569 -0
- data/lib/training_data/el-utf8.txt +48 -0
- data/lib/training_data/en-utf8.txt +81 -0
- data/lib/training_data/es-utf8.txt +185 -0
- data/lib/training_data/et-utf8.txt +50 -0
- data/lib/training_data/fa-utf8.txt +42 -0
- data/lib/training_data/fi-utf8.txt +83 -0
- data/lib/training_data/fr-utf8.txt +191 -0
- data/lib/training_data/fy-utf8.txt +22 -0
- data/lib/training_data/ga-utf8.txt +109 -0
- data/lib/training_data/he-utf8.txt +116 -0
- data/lib/training_data/hi-utf8.txt +49 -0
- data/lib/training_data/hr-utf8.txt +80 -0
- data/lib/training_data/hu-utf8.txt +87 -0
- data/lib/training_data/io-utf8.txt +41 -0
- data/lib/training_data/is-utf8.txt +94 -0
- data/lib/training_data/it-utf8.txt +228 -0
- data/lib/training_data/ja-utf8.txt +200 -0
- data/lib/training_data/ko-utf8.txt +147 -0
- data/lib/training_data/nl-utf8.txt +215 -0
- data/lib/training_data/no-utf8.txt +281 -0
- data/lib/training_data/pl-utf8.txt +120 -0
- data/lib/training_data/pt-utf8.txt +214 -0
- data/lib/training_data/ro-utf8.txt +66 -0
- data/lib/training_data/ru-utf8.txt +310 -0
- data/lib/training_data/sl-utf8.txt +263 -0
- data/lib/training_data/sv-utf8.txt +174 -0
- data/lib/training_data/th-utf8.txt +49 -0
- data/lib/training_data/tk-utf8.txt +101 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/af.txt +114 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/amharic-utf.txt +95 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/arabic-windows1256.txt +157 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/armenian.txt +86 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/basque.txt +136 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/belarus-windows1251.txt +97 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/bosnian.txt +97 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/breton.txt +159 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/bulgarian-iso8859_5.txt +115 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/catalan.txt +93 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/croatian-ascii.txt +104 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/esperanto.txt +95 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/estonian.txt +218 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/frisian.txt +99 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/georgian.txt +86 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/greek-iso8859-7.txt +139 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/hawaian.txt +108 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/hebrew-iso8859_8.txt +79 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/hindi.txt +77 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/hungarian.txt +102 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/icelandic.txt +131 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/indonesian.txt +93 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/irish.txt +209 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/latin.txt +120 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/latvian.txt +126 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/lithuanian.txt +99 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/malay.txt +108 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/manx.txt +78 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/marathi.txt +100 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/mf.txt +100 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/middle_frisian.txt +102 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/mingo.txt +146 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/nepali.txt +131 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/persian.txt +73 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/quechua.txt +108 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/romanian.txt +103 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/rumantsch.txt +110 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/sanskrit.txt +135 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/scots.txt +490 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/scots_gaelic.txt +93 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/serbian-ascii.txt +121 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/slovak-ascii.txt +102 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/slovak-windows1250.txt +115 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/slovenian-ascii.txt +100 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/slovenian-iso8859_2.txt +96 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/sq.txt +110 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/swahili.txt +120 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/tagalog.txt +135 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/tamil.txt +123 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/turkish.txt +117 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/ukrainian-koi8_r.txt +214 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/vietnamese.txt +92 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/welsh.txt +148 -0
- data/lib/training_data/todo/yiddish-utf.txt +83 -0
- data/lib/training_data/uk-utf8.txt +75 -0
- data/lib/training_data/vi-utf8.txt +47 -0
- data/lib/training_data/zh-utf8.txt +228 -0
- data/test/language_detector_test.rb +78 -0
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masel! An a feelin-herteet yallih-yorleen, hippin alang the deike,
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body can finnd the praicious scents o field an foggeege, flueesh an
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moniment A jaloozed ti be the Lilliard's Edge Memorial, so that A was
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stannin on bluiddy Ancrum Muir. Nae cannie daffin bull- reel splore that
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fearfih fecht, whan the Dooglas an the Scott wrait off a wheen auld
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scores an saw day-aboot wui the auld-enemy.
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fidgin mad-keen ti teer the harrigals oot o other; ilk lirk o thir
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dei-in, an garrd the hyill yins devall an take a barley. Oor forebears
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an ther Southron neebers coodna sit soft ava i thae days: they war
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everly natterin an fechtin. An-sic veeshyis fechteen as it was, tui!
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canty doon-sitteen!
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landmerk-Peinelheuch. This eez the saicant sic column, A've haar'tell;
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turbleent woare as the ordnar dang doon the firsst Peinelheuch moniment
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an yownt-owre it tirlt!) Bit Border folk are no that easy bett ; they
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ti ma caav-grund o Teviot- dale-an A lilteet a sang an whewed an
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yuooted, leike as A'd gane wuth, an laap an flaang as yauld-as a
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wuddie--boondin bleithely on wui ma' airms shuggiein lowce threh ma
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oxters. A was abuin-the- woarlt! A was naether ti haud nor ti binnd! If
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onybody hed eyed iz, hei'd heh thocht A was shuir ready for Bowden!!
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"Bring ben the loch!" yince quo "Jamie the Poyeter;" an faith A was
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waeter-(waeter-waeter, waal-waeter, sprigget-waeter, or waeter threh a
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pownd!) -till ma lugs played crack! or till there, was nochts left o the
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nerrest-hand loch bit paddihs, fishes stankin for braith, an glet. So,
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raison or nane, A claam a fence o spakes an stuckeens, an jookeet doon
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ti a wumplin burnie, where A cood sei sic a gliff as A gien the baggies
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an preenheeds whan A shot ma dish inti the waeter. Weiceleik-e, A juist
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shadeet seide, where juist the sunny blinks, keekin throwe atween the
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leafs, spurtelt the road wui greimeens o licht. Doon ablow glinteet Yill
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wui Teiot. The fisslin leafs trimmelt an bevvert i the simmer breeze on
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its banks, an the flicherin burdies daibbelt an dookeet; an A fair
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on, the road splet, an, ti the richt, spanged the Yill owre a brig
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aseide a creeper-kivvert cottage wuin wui its gairdeen a perfect sotter
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bat, jikkerin aboot threh flooer ti flooer.
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an A hoyed strecht for the "clachan." A maun heh been woare ti waeter as
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ti corn, a hantle, for A'll ouwn A was dry again, turnt, lang or this!
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ti the now, an A was vext A hedna socht a piece i ma pootch for ti
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mootle i the road. So ee sei A thocht A micht fell twae dogs wui yeh
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bane: sei Ancrum, an geet a chack o something ti serr as an off-pit, if
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it was duist a gowpeenfih berries or a penny gray rowe, wui a slokener
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spruish an turn leify again the maist shilpeet an disjaskeet! Ay! thon's
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the keind o bit! wui rowth o simmer sheine, an wui waalth o leaf an
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flooer, an wui breezes threh the Border hills ti blaw away the ooder an
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the speeder-wobs threh a body's herns-ti gar the reed bluid lowp, an pit
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yin that's off eis bat suin on the way o mends again; ti gar yin that's
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the keind o bit-steepeet i the lore o the bye-gane days; a bit that saw
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thocht o. Monie a creestin bit wui a guid ruice o itsel A ken that
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a richt look at yin o the bonniest an pleesantest bits 'at ever A've
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clappeet een on o. Planteet aboot the Green i the mids, the treis gien
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skug ti the Auld Cross-sair duifft an neiteet an nickeet wui Teime an
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the waather . The bairns new oot o the skuil for leave, gaed lowpin an
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callants daein kittles. A dandert aboot amang the auld byres an smiddie
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ends an yetts; an than a gaed inti a bit an slokent ma drooth (oot ov a
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tanker lippin- fowe-nane o eer eend-mizzer!) wui a lang waucht that
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garrd iz sich. Neext A speerd if A cood geet ochts ti eat,-if there was
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a mael o meat ti be bocht- skecht-gotten a len o (!)-mumpeet(!!).
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folk an gangerels. An A'd thocht A wad be aa the road i Ancrum! It serrd
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atween a fowe man an a fastin; bit A bocht an ett twae cookies an a
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whank o cheese ti keep iz gaun till A wan ti Jethart. Than A wasteet nae
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Aathings whufft an dovert bar the midges an mei, an thegither oo turnt
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ti the richt for the Teiot an the coonty toon. At the fit o the brae a
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flitteen was gaun on; twae-threi chiels war biggin f urniter an
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plaeneesheen on ti laarries, an still another road-injin, wui the
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inspeirin name: "Jethart's Here!", stuid nerrbye,-nidgin ti dae the
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poween. Ancrum Brig, weel-kennd ti fisher-folk, is baith braid an
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strang, an a gledge owre luit iz sei the bonnie Teviot, dooce an
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purpose-leike (for aa it's new hoven wui Yill!) gleidin neth the pends.
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braid-shoodert, rash an stuffy, that staapeet alang the Jethart road wui
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a taatih- steppin streide. Game for ochts, A snuived steevely on aboot
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wund, an wui nae bield! The sweet was duist hailin off iz till A was
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nerrhand swutten deed; ma serk was drackeet wui weet till it stack ti ma
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verra back; an, dicht as A micht, dreeps rowld doon owre brow, haffets
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an chowks, forbye. Ma collar lay roond ma craigie as wanrestfih as
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branks an brecham roond a yaud. Birsselt an scowdert, leike a
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bubbly-jock duine weel in ov an oven, A cood heh f und eet i ma hert ti
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where it laippeet bye leafy- Monteviot. Bit the buirdly Borderer snodged
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on a guid yin, an on A poalled ahint um at the same jock-trot !
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fair soople; so that eis beiceecle steitert aneth um, an A thocht the
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sowl wad take a dwam, an kilt owre,-banyels, creel, an aa thegither.
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Dod, the snirtin body! Hei wad think A was fond,-braisslin on ao
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stressin masel that gait in ony sicwaather. (Yibbles ei thocht it was
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for a weejer). Hei cam tui, an rallied, tho, an away ei birrlt, still
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buffin an smudgin inti eis sel.
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A pairteet threh the leesh, swank-leike fallih ('at A'd been followin
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eis lead) at the whusht road-end at Jedfit, for there ei tuik tae airt
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aa coal-coom, an a perr o reed-ribbon een glintin leike slaes). Hei was
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on ov a laarrie comin birrlin alang leike the bars o Ayr, -as hard as it
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cood lick for Haaick. Yoint the road, an bye the station, A crosst Jed
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Waeter, an suin ma shuin war clankin yince mair alang owre causa an
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It wad want a twae-threi meenints a twae i the efternuin whan A turnt
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inti the High Street o Jethart, where there was an unordnar stur for the
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teime o day. At the Mercat Place A maircht eend ti the "Gazette" Office,
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an bocht a wheen picter-postcairds for ti send away up Ingland (they
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gien iz yin intil't), an speerd anent the Haaick motor.
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ti fill ma empy keite, for my certies! A was howe! A was owre lang for
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taatihs, bit A made a faiasable mael oot o pie-soop(a pickle grand
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thing, 'at war they!), caald flesh, picklt ingans, an nae skrimp o laif;
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a gey little hote o muilleens left for Lazarus! Yow yins that's keinda
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mollups an eer friggeen an falderals! Some folk heh sic a tredd wui
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thersels,-primpin!
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wame fowe, ma thochts redd thersels the better oot. A paid ma laween (it
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was naething owre-the-maitter - A wasna saateet), an than A lifteet the
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there, A thocht, A micht mebbies cood geet a hurl the lenth o Hawick. An
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aye geet seen the better aboot iz, an geet taen the mair guid o the
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Bonnie Borderland. It was a Day's Dander A wanteet, an no a raam-race
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"Oo're aa gaun ti Denum!"
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oot A suitt towrt the Auld Jail, thonder, an yokeet till't up the Casle-
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gate. Whow! yon brae o the Caslegate o Jethart! Sic a byordnar grand bit
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for a sledge- sky or a yoke-a- tuillie! By!! The gaird wad need ti bei
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richt an skeely at the merreen, tho, A'm thinkin, for it wad be a gey
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sair pliskie ti rin dunt up again' the braw moniment at the fit. It wad
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take a vast o sow-same, a richt claat o creesh, ti cleester a cloor
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gotten that gait! Ee meind what Jamie Tamson wrait aboot the
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guitter-bluid callants o Haaick an "the battert gavel o the Auld Mid
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Jethart Jail stands nowadays. The seams an ploys o grit-folk an
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Royalties; ther splun- teens an ther mairryeens; ther shooteens an ther
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buirryeens. Did the deed-raap soond throwe its gampy ends, A wunder, i
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the nicht efter guid King Alisaunder's waddeen-foy, - whan the grewsome
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gaisener ov a geizart, i the girnin Daita's Heed, coonjert wui its
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moween an its skeeletin-maigs, aa the braw folk weegin an dancin?
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Jethart Casle! A body wad need ti ken'd aff leike as Wattie Laidlaw
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kennd eet, for ti tell owre, off-luif, aa its dambrod-cheekeet story.
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Puir auld Wattie Laidlaw! It was waesome ti think that hei was awanteen
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threh eis weet-1eikeet Aibbey doon i the howe. A think A sei um yet: a
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patriarch-leike body,-heed bared, an airm hoised as ei hailed the
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(yince an ei',d been suitten on) hei laid on an ranted off yirrds o
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Border rheime an lore,-that nae man was better aqcuaint wui. Never
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huivvin ti ruize Jethart high; never devaaldin ti crack prood an massy
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aboot its bonnie bits an its history: a geyan yibble poyeter an a leal
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Waeter-gate o Jed. Let this beide as a merk o the respeck o the wreiter
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o this leibult ti yin that may the muils lie licht on; the auld ye-teime
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keeper o Jethart Aibbey!
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Thereckly, as a hechult up that teedisome brae, the muckle
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Cairter-booksome an blewe-leike wui the ferness o'd-raise fer owre on ma
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left. "Teedisome brae," quo A, eenow, bit for aa A stecht keinda, it was
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rale neice, that sklimm, wui the efternuin sun daabin sheddihs oot owre
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the knowes an fells. Guid- bethankeet, tui, nocht ailed ma cluits; A'd
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hed naething woare as a lowce wheing aa the day,-a faut easy eneneh
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putten richt. A was nae hippeet heipalt, hirplin on. A'd naether bumple,
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brizz, bate, nor blusht-bit ti play the limm an gar iz humple or turn
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lameter. Nor was A tewd or mauchless, bit limbber an lither.
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the shooder o' the Dunion, hoized the loor-brows o derk Ruberslaw. Be
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this, it wasna fer ti heed o the brae-the hinmaist bit bairge ov a powe
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bringin iz alang bye a boaggly, gloomin planteen, where the whussellin
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wunt gaed soachin throwe. An oh! (whan yince A'd gotten ti the top o the
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rig, an-forfeuchen a weilock-hed hoakkert doon on ti ma hunkers till A
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gethart back ma braith)-glorious sicht!!
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A was on yin o thae hichts-Lilliard's Edge hed been sic-an-so that verra
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day-that the Borderland hes sic rowth o; yin o thae watch-knowe hichts,
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clean abuin haugh an howe, that in days o auld gien wairneen ti a hyill
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waeter-gate, bit that i thir days juist gae keeks inti a yarthly
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pairideise. Jethart lay hidden on the yeh seide at the boddom o the lang
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swaip that hed garrd mei pech; on the tother the road gaed brent doon
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inti thick planteens abuin Bedrule an Denum.
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A cood wale oot Rule Waeter's coorse feine,- merkeet wui raws on raws o
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treis-where it jookeet doon threh the knowes away ayownt Buinster an
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Hobkirk. An another ribbon,-verder-cled, rinnin eassla-wassla-telld the
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coorse o bonnie Teviot, wumplin bye paster an pairk an bussy dean.
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(haappeet an rowed in their leafy maud) brent raise ther skerrs; an the
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gray waas o Fatlips keekeet oot threh atween the treis that skuggeet
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Barnhill's staney bed an hade Mintih Hoose threh sicht. Away yownt baith
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Teiot an Yill, bit stannin oot clear as clear, the Eeldon threisome
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pointeet the airt A'd comed: by seike an deike an waeter; bve burn an
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brig an haa. Wastwards, it wasna ill ti ken threh whaiten bits Teiot hed
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run: a pickle blewe reek threh the hoose-lums o Denum draiggelt in a
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swutherin clud; an, ferrer up the waeter yet plain ti ma aiger lookeen,
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hang another caal, leike a bruch roond a muin. Duist there lay auld
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lowpin an puttin an stoondin throwe aa ma book.
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Door an dochty, framin the view, war rankeet Naeter's Wardens o the
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Mairches-The Cairter, Cat- cleuch Shin, Peel Fell, Penchrise Pen,
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Skelfhill Pen, an the lave.
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A wheen folk oot picnickin at a deike-fit on Dunionseide hed kinnelt a
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lunt an war thrang poatchin aboot an maskin tei. A pewl o reek fuffelt
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abuin the gleed, an swurlt an yilleet away in a pirlin braith o wund,
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roond owre the shooder o the knowe, till it saanteet i the caller air.
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Hicher up, nerr the croon o the hill, men war layin on an chaappin,
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lootin doon an howkin threh a skerr, the teime a stane-nappin injin
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gaed-on leike a tuim mill,-skrunshin- chaampin-
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haanshin-nickerin-dirrlin-snokerin-an reesellin, -withoot lissance. Ti
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the sooth, ayownt the sweire, stuide Black Law; an ahint hit, Ruberslaw
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michty noal, wui plewed rigs an planteens-reed-land an greenery- dinkin
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its merly-merkeet braes, an Peden's Poopit buinmaist. Dunion, wui its
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muckle mell heed, is buirdly billie ti Ruberslaw, an there the perr
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stand, shooder ti shooder, leike as they war glunshin an shuirrin doon
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at aabodie that wad middle-thum. A hantle heh the twaesome seen sin the
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beacons war kuittelt on ther heathery pows, an mosstrooper an reever
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rade bye ti foray an fecht an reipin raid. Now, the "ern-horse" rins
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roond ahint the Mintih Hills; the motor birls up the stoor on the
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Jethart road; an the aeroplane gangs whurrin bye i the cluds abuin-
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A hained that view an taen the guid o'd as lang's A durst an cood. It
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wad heh been naething till iz ta heh bidden aa nicht ti sei'd owre
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again, bonnier as ever, at the skrich o day! Bit "nae man can tether
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tieme nor teide," an, sweerdrawn an laith tho A was, A'd ti turn away
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for aa aa ma offpitteen an daidelleen, an stert on the doon-gangeen ti
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the Waeter o Ruile.
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Bit, Guidbethankeet, there's nocht ti hinder a body threh seekin away
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wui um thochts o sic bonnie bits ti pit bye an huirrd in eis posie o
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pleezant maimeries. An so it is that A heh thae thochts ti faa back on
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gin Fortun takes a pick at iz an things gang geite; whan A turn dowie an
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hum-jum, or take a demuirrd dwam, fair leike ti faa of the spake wui the
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wuddles an the vexes o woark i the mids o a michty ceetie fer aa
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sindert; whan A hatter on, maist deeved an daivert an donnert wui the
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rummellin dunner o an eend-on bizz-a stramoosh unendeen-the skirls an
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the dirls, the raameen an the raackeen an the cammelleen, the daads an
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the dunts an the skraucheon an the skreeveen. An so it is atweenhands,
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tui, whan A keek oot ov a slaistert woark-place wundih on ti bowkin lums
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an platchin cloots an ruiffs an waas baith suitteet an ratcht on derk
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wunter days, whan aathing's dinnellin an cruppen-thegither wui the
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nurlin hackin clap o Jock Nipneb's nitherin neeve, or the daggy drowe
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comes drifflin on an a smairggin rowk feiles ilka thing, or the
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snaw-brui's strampeet inti a caald-broon platch, a chaamp that turns
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foats an cuittlekins soappin-wat an lauchs at tacketty shuin; an I
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simmer, whan the smuists are woarst an the pluiffin ter froes up atween
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the causa-stanes, whan the bruizzin, frizzlin heat turns frush things
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tewd an rizzert, an leify folk dawallt an waaf, whan wud turns geizant
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an ern lowps abreed. Everly, whan A haiggle on alang streets chowky wui
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cluds o shairny stoor an smuirrin reek or clairty wui lifty glaar an
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creeshy glet threh fooel seier an brander; whan A'm owther geetin
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jaappeet an splairggeat wui dirrt, or dunsht wui folk, whan A'm
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seek-staaed o the wundy, aippeen an the putten-on mimpeen an the
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preidfih bluistereen that a body often hes ti thole; whan A'm scunnert
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ti deed wui speakin feine; whan ma lugs are staaed o throaply blethers
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an ma paap-o-the-hass is yookin ti let oot some richt, guid, braid
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Haaick:-A duist caa cannie a weilock,-steek ma een,-an gae ma meind
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leave ti spang owre ti Lilliaird's Edge or the heed o the Dunion,- an,
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losh sakes mei! the thochts that come seipin, seilin throwe an rowl owre
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an owre amang ma herns are fit ti gar aa the trauchles an the fashes
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gang leike the snaw off the deike in a thowe, an-een as the flaam o the
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waather-gleam skails afore'd the clutds threh an owrecuissen lift-thae
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thochts help iz ti cast ma dowth, thole-muiddy boot; they set a spunk ti
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ma gleed o Hope till it comes ti leife again; they gar iz bang up
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bleithe again an buckle tui in nettle-yirrnist!
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A met a doiterin, duddy, auld hallanshaker as A laampeet doon that lang
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brae; a shauchlin, husslin- shoodert skeiabult wui a toozy, taaty heed
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that wad be richt an ruggy ti redd, an a baird sair needin a
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redden-kaim, - wui stoory claes aa tairgets an spatches an
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faizzent-ends, an skluiffin shuin wurn inti bauchels. Puir sowl! Hei
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didna set the bonnie cuintrie-seide.
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It hed been a stey climm up ti Dunion-heed, an it was an unco lang
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doonfaa ti Rule-Waeter-seide, an aa. Bien an braw wui skuggin shaws an
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bonnie busses, the road gaed wundin doon, till suin, aa that was left o
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ma vie was the toppeen o Ruberslaw an the brows o the Mintih Hills. Whan
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a gledge doon inti the Rule as it ran rowlin ti link in wui Teiot, an -
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Duist at the gangeen-in ti the village, alang the laeuch road thonder, a
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muckle great, big hivvy, motor- laarrie-a perfeet killogie for reek-cam
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snorkin an dunnerin bye, gaun Haaick airt. Sittin curmudd ahint, an
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geetin a hurl for nochts, twae-threi bleithe- leike fallihs i glarry
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moleskins smokeet their claey peipes, tho their chafts war ditherin an
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beverrin leike as they war pairlt, wui the awfih deedelleen an joaggleen
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o rampaajin laarrie. It was at ma tung-ruits ti cry on the hoattery
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affair, for fear it was ma hinmaist chance o a cairrie ti Haaick; bit A
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hedna muckle brow o'd, an A hickeet an tuik the rewe, for the rummelleen
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o'd an the clairty, creeshy look o'd wad heh gien a body the scunners. A
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canna meind now whae was ocht the naisty infiel, bit A meind o wunderin
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its folk didna think black burnin shame o its ongangeen!! There's a guid
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mids! Bit A daar- say there's a selly bit aboot uz aa,-they warna
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finndin the skomfeesheen. So away A luit eet gang, i swurlin cluds o
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stoor o its ain soopeen; An on A snodged ma leifih-lane, till the
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riggens an ruiffs o Denum-theekeet yins an sklaitteet yins-cam in sicht;
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an seine A gaed stairgin up the "Canniegate!"
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A cleckeen o guidweives at a gairdeen-yett whuttert ti other whan they
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eyed iz; an aamaist the whole road-end cam oot-ther-oot ti waal an glowr
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at the unordnar munsie; the stoory stravaiger. Shuir eneuch, A wad look
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a richt jeeg ti thum. Imagin iz: A reed, lowpin, broazy face leike a
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bermy bannih, sweet-begrutten an bairkent wui dirrt; hair aa torfellt an
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toozellt; collar raandeet, an waaffelt lang seine; rufflt claes, creest
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an huggery-muggery; an shuin wheite o stoor, for aa ma dichteen an
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daaddeen. Sic a brattie! Sic a sain! Bit A never goamed the folk, an A
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never luit bat; aa that A heedeet was: Here A was at Denum,-the same
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auld Denum as it was aye! A didna ken a grain o odds o'd for aa A hedna
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seen't threh kens-whan. There was the Leyden Moniment: there the Frei
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Kirk clock; an aa the weel- kennd howffs an hooses; a waaller o barefit
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getts; a wumman wui a bairn cairryin i the shawl; an auld herd wul a
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maud on, an a nibble in eis neeve; an a snowkin collie!
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ocht eet. A bit beekin callant, eis chuffy chowks aa fairnytickles, an
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eis airm up ti shade eis een, gleimed gleide against the sun's licht as
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455
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+
A cam up. A axt um if this was the Haaick motor, an whuther it was gaun
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456
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+
back ti Haaick that nicht or no.
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457
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+
"Ay!", says hei.
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458
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+
Off-luif, ei made twae wrang shots anent the teime if wad set oot (ei
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459
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said firrst that it was gaun ti Haaick at "haaf-past 'hrei!," an neext
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460
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+
ei said "haaf- past fowr!", whan A kennd feine naether the tain nor the
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461
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+
tother cood be the richt oor, for it was weel-on o haaf-past five,
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462
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+
els!): bit for aa ei threepeet, ei gaed yins-yirrint an fand oot the
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463
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+
richt teime for iz i the hinder-end, an A I gien um a thripny-bit. Sic a
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464
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+
nibble for um! The little bleckie was fair upmade whan A said: "Hyeh!"
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465
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+
Hei glaammed at eet leike a cock at a grozert, an waird eet afore ma
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466
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+
lookin een on o leemeenade or sic-another fussy drink, for A saw um,
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467
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+
thereckly, bebbin an taain oot ov a bottle, an whoam- mlin't ti geet the
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468
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+
verra grands, wui the weeks o eis mooth aa froe, an riftin gas till eis
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469
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+
een grat.
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470
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+
As for mei, A gaed an got masel cleaned an spruisht wui a grand swaibble
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471
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o waeter, a shed i ma hair, a lick o bleckneen on ma buits, an a skuff
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472
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+
doon wui a claes-brush,-an a hantle the better A fand masel, for a clean
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473
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+
thing's aye feel. Than A pandert up an doon a bittie, hed a bit crack
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474
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+
wui yin an another; an, whan the motor dreiver, trig in eis ticht
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475
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+
leggums, beguid o kirneen an caain eis injin, A planteet masel i the
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476
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+
machine, takin tent no ti crack ma cantel as A claam in.
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477
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+
Jimp hed a gotten sutten doon, afore wei war off-wui a yerk an a dunsh
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478
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+
an a stech an a "Parp!" -off leike billie-hoy on the lang rin "by
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479
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+
Teviot's flooery border." No that lang, aether,-it was nae teime
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480
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+
owregane or oo war birlin owre the Trow Burn leike five ell o wund; bye
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481
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+
auld Hornshole, -a picter o gray an green-wui a glisk o the Moniment;
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482
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+
bye Lindean an Weensland; raisin at yeh whup a steer an a stoor, an
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483
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+
gliffin auld folk an bairns, baith.
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484
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+
An so, efter a smert hurl, oo clattert inti Hawick High Street duist on
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485
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+
the chaap o six,-an ma lang Dander throwe the Bonnie Borderland, mang
|
486
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+
Howes an Knowes, an alang the Waeter-gates,-cam ti an end i the hert o a
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487
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+
lichtsome strooshie, ti the droang o the Toon's clock an the bumm o the
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488
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+
jumboes; whan the mills war skailin an the mill-yins war toavin hyimm
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489
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+
efter ther simmer-efternuins yokeen.
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490
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+
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