354 -- Chapter 36 -- North & South
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| Current Book | Chapter 36 (Vol 2, ch 11) of
North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell, with many thanks to our reader,
Barbara Edleman.
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| This Week | Literary Links-n-Stuff
M'appen = May Happen (perhaps, maybe)
welly = nearly (e.g., "Fire's welly out")
would fain = with pleasure, gladly
aught = various uses (everything, anything, nothing) so Higgins', "There he went, ossing to promise aught, and pledge himsel' to aught—to tell a' he know'd on our proceedings, the food-for-nothing Judas!"
means
"There he went, trying to promise everything and pledge himself to everything and tell everything he knew about our union business."
a-that-ens = to those ends, that way
"To a Mountain Daisy: On Turning One Down with the Plow, in April, 1786"—poem by Robert Burns read by Craftlit's Resident Scotsman (the Awesome
Arlen) with a proper burr (and Scottish bróg)!
Images in the video: "
Robert burns" by Original uploader was
Yallery Brown at
en.wikipedia - Transfered from
en.wikipedia. Licensed under Public domain via
Wikimedia Commons.
His home: "
Ellisland Farm and the River Nith" by Unknown - Wilson. Land of Burns. 1840. Licensed under Public domain via
Wikimedia Commons.
ill-redd-up = unmade, ashy fireplace
butty = (back then) any kind of bread with... anything (butter, salt, fat) The
connection between vinegar and fainting London
up,
Milton down? What gives?
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