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Taken off Halcyon


Taken off Halcyon

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    Fit div ye mean aul claes ats the best he,s got .
    That cheese-cutter he usually wears, would fetch a princely sum on the Antiques Road Show!  ......
    "Now, do you know the age of the cap, sir?"
    "Weel, nae really. My father wore it as lang as I can mind, and he got it fae his father."
    "That's not REALLY old, is it?"
    "Haud on a meenit , an' lat me feenish. His father afore him nivver wore't, but it was hannit doon fae His father afore him, if ye kenfitamean".
    "Kenfitamean! What does that, mean?"
    "Ye're nae afa bright, man, to hae landed a cooshy job like this, wind'rin' foo aul' my caip is. Gie's the thing back. I'll awa hame and "wyve in" a section afore I get the sack!"