Word: bairn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gave you one bonny bairn that's gone down in the deep. . . . Now this one is all we are left with, and you'll no acknowledge him. He's yours! He's your son, James! I've been true to you, and I gave...
When Ernest Thompson Seton was a wee bairn in the North of England, his sympathies were not with Little Red Ridinghood but with the wolf. "I felt that his case was not properly presented; he acted strictly within the law, and on each occasion he got a very raw deal." When he was 31, his painting of a wolf crunching a human skull was tossed out of the Grand Salon in Paris with cries of "Horrible! In sympathy with the beast ! " Following year, in New Mexico, he resolved to stop poisoning cattle-slaying wolves. "What right. I asked...