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John M. Caie

A croon, a harp, a bonnie sang,
Wi’ naething tae dee but tak’ wir ease,
An’ still-an’-on we’re loath tae gyang –
Dod, but fowk’s gey ill tae please.


John M. Caie

from ‘Twixt Hills and Sea: verse in Scots and English (Aberdeen: D. Wyllie & Son, 1939)

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John M. Caie1878 - 1949

A senior agriculturalist, J. M. Caie wrote about the rural life of North-East Scotland in the 1930s, and was the author of the poem about the vaunty frog, 'The Puddock'.
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