Tag: Country life
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Bogie tae Burn
Tam – a wooden-legged tramp goes into a shop for tobacco. Seeing that there is bogie-rowe (a type of rolled tobacco) for sale, Tam, brandishes a silver half-crown and asks how much he can get for that. For this, the shopkeeper offers him a much as can fit between Tam’s feet. Tam points out that…
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Aunty Barry’s Dream
Aunty Barry fills the church with people eager to hear her play the organ. But it was all just a dream.
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“Ile”
Hilly’s car (Auld Lizzie) isn’t running well and he asks his wife if she has any Castrol oil for Auld Lizzie. She confuses this with castor oil and says she’s run out of that but has some Seidlitz Powder (a laxative), if that would be any good.
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“The Mullert”
Disty sets out across the heather after night at the pub in Torphins and finds his way by the light of the moon. He thinks he’ll see it better if he looks through the bottom of his whisky bottle. However, the moon won’t stay put, the ground rises up and he ends up going back…
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“The Saut Sea Win’”
Tammie’s wife takes to her bed, worn out. He calls the Doctor, who recommends a month of salty sea air on the coast somewhere. Tammie thinks of a cheaper solution and, when the Doctor returns, he finds Tammie wafting a salted herring at his wife.
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Takin’s Turn
The minister’s son comes across a drunken Geordie Tamson lying in the road. He and a friend put Geordie in a barrow and wheel him home. When they stop for a rest, Geordie wakes up, jumps in the barrow and wheels himself home.
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The Cure-A’
Hypchondriac Tibbie swore by her many “Cure-alls” but, feeling ill, she called out the Doctor. Before he arrived, another box of potions arrived so she sent the Doctor away. The Doctor tells her that she might as well throw the rest of her potions in the fire.