Word: benbecula
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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Angus MacMillan is a jolly old man with a weather-lined face, a scraggly mustache, and a laugh that comes from his belly. He was born in Benbecula, in the Outer Hebrides, and only left the island once-to join the territorials during the Boer War. As a child, he went to school to learn a bit of reading. After seven weeks of it, he came home again to be a crofter on a small farm...
Soon, Angus was holding his own sgeulachlan, and his fame spread through Benbecula. Neighbors began coming from miles around to his stone farmhouse on the moors. There, in the smell of burning peat and freshly woven wool, Angus would begin his tales. And everyone would listen, including his wife, though she had heard all his stories before...
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