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"They used to make
marking in a jam pan on t’ fire. T’was to put on hot. There was
a little marker for lambs, a middle one
for next uns and a big ’un for t’yows.
"This old man Milch Williamson, there was a big stone aback
the door and only one sheep could get through at time. He stood,
he was stooped there bent double, and as they came out he catched
them and just held them around his knee. Nice to mark. Once, and
they used to run away up yard and into t’ field, never rubbed
again each other, smudging and that. Next year you marked them,
you could just mark atop of it, still there, just mark atop of
it, nae bother."
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