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Garlogie School, Circa 1915

28th September 2012

A bairn-play on the ‘Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna’ taught to the poet by her mother, Winifred Booth.

Slowly an sadly we laid him doon
We rubbit his nose in butter
We pit him in a sardine tin
An floatit him doon the gutter!