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  • ` ` Aweel, lass, '' answered the good landlady, ` ` then thou must pickle in thine ain poke-nook, and buckle thy girdle thine ain gate.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

  • "Aweel, lass," answered the good landlady, "then thou must pickle in thine ain poke-nook, and buckle thy girdle thine ain gate.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801

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