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Excerpt from The Goodwife at Home: Illustrating the Dialect of the Nort-West District of Aberdeenshire; Footdee in the 18th Century; Song, Fair in Kinrara Good many years ago a lady, now deceased, widow of a A Parochial Clergyman, in the course of a correspondence with a friend, when it happened to turn upon our Mother Tongue, wrote the following verses, exemplifying the dialect of the North West of Aberdeenshire. They are now published, with the consent of her family, in order to preserve from oblivion some fine old words and phrases which are gradually falling into disuse. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.