Word: crofter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...this interests Angus little, though the commission keeps telling him that he is helping to save the Hebrides folklore from oblivion. At 74, Angus wants only to be a good crofter, to keep to his own sgeulachlan, and to tell of oldtime lovers and rogues and kings, ending each story with the very same words: "dhealaich mise rithe"-"and so I parted with them...