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Saturday 11 August 2012

38/100 ‘I’d deserted Susie, my yawl, that day’


I’d deserted Susie, my yawl, that day
To bespeak a bride,
A Birsay lass, well-dowered.

[from ‘The Bridegroom from the sea’, George Mackay Brown, ‘Travellers’]

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