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Yarnin By James Sinclair

Yarnin - James Sinclair. A conversation on Dale o Waas beach

Read By James Sinclair

Hit’s braaly herd ta fathom, how
a lobster can survive dis wadder.
Wi da gale blawin an a wasterly swell runnin
joost a bulderation in-anunder da banks
an du sees yun big baa oot by da point
yes, yunder, whaar yun muckle sea is brakkin.

I mind wis takkin a peerie skiff doon aff da beach
on a February day in nineteen fifty fower
an settin a creel richt on tap o dat baa.
Whin we hailed da creel, we got tree lobsters
dat day we set an hailed twal creels
an hed sixteen lobsters fur wir day.

Du sees yun noosts set up abune da beach.
Da story goes, dat mony a year fae syne
a muckle sea ran richt up da high watter mark
an tumbled aw da boats up ower da broo.
Naa boy, du’s no likly ta see Foula
da day, dir’s ower muckle haar fur dat.

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