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Agricultural verse

This is not an Orkney piece but the kind o thing whur father wid stand up and recite after lubrication!!.
If you can read "Caithneesian" hid is funny.
Picture added on 21 August 2012 at 12:17
Comments:
I could just hear your owld man while I read it John......
Added by Jimmy Hamilton on 21 August 2012
I assume 'caff' in the last stanza is chaff? I have fond memories of going to sleep on a mattress of chicken feathers laid over a mattress of chaff in a box-bed some seven decades ago. Bliss.
Added by Ian Hourston on 24 November 2013
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