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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. Book talk begins at 29 minutes.
The first N&S episode is 331.

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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? Let us know! Fun Stuff

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