Vulgar words in Puck of Pook’s Hill (Page 1)

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He threw his big head back and began at the second line:— ‘Good housewives now may say, For now foul sluts in dairies Do fare as well as they; For though they sweep their hearths no less [pg 10] (‘Join in, Una!’) Than maids were wont to do, Yet who of late for cleanliness Finds sixpence in her shoe?’ The echoes flapped all along the flat meadow.

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‘Only ’tis strange to think how that little church was re-built, re-roofed, and made glorious, thanks to some few godly Sussex iron-masters, a Bristol sailor lad, a proud ass called Hal o’ the Draft because, d’you see, he was always drawing and drafting; and’—he dragged the words slowly—‘ and a Scotch pirate.’ [pg 210] ‘Pirate?’ said Dan.

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