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  • She led him to the chimla-lug (the ear of the chimney), carefully levelled a wooden chair to the inequalities of the floor, and said,

    Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

  • "Here's a young gentleman o 'talans, wi' ilka prospeck o 'waggin' his heid in a poopit some day; an 'ye aid an' abet him in idlin 'awa' his time at your chimla-lug, duin 'waur nor naething ava!

    David Elginbrod George MacDonald 1864

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