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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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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!
