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Auld Licht Idylls

CHAPTER VII
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Even with three wicks it gave but a stime of light, and never allowed the weaver to see more than the half of his loom at a time.

Sometimes Cree used threads for wicks.

He was too dull a man to have many visitors, but Mr.Dishart called occasionally and reproved him for telling his mother lies.

The lies Cree told Mysy were that he was sharing the meals he won for her, and that he wore the overcoat which he had exchanged years before for a blanket to keep her warm.
There was a terrible want of spirit about Grinder Queery.

Boys used to climb on to his stone roof with clods of damp earth in their hands, which they dropped down the chimney.


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