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There's a kittle bit, ye see, about Sandag; whiles the sook rins strong for the Merry Men; an 'whiles again, when the tide's makin' hard an 'ye can hear the Roost blawin' at the far-end of Aros, there comes a back-spang of current straucht into Sandag Bay.
Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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