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Pete G Sep 16, 2002 01:44:24
Replying to lissy

When Stonehenge was being builded, a goodish bit after Avebury, the Devil were in a rare taking. 'There's getting a vast deal too much religion in these here parts,'
he says, 'summat must be done.' So he picks up a shovel, and cuts a slice out of Salisbury plain,
and sets off for to smother up Avebury. But the priests saw him coming and set to work with
their charms and incussations, and they fixed him while he wer yet a nice way off, till he flings
down the shovelful just where he stood. And that's Silbury.

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PeteG

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Pete G Sep 16, 2002 01:48:44
Replying to Pete G

When I was last there a shepherd had just accomplished the feat of getting his flock of down sheep through the gate, and as they raced along in a big bunch after the manner of their kind, with bells tinkling, and tearing eagerly at this fresh sample of pasture that grew in the moat, he was taking a well-earned leisure on the bank, his coat and crook and dog beside him, and in sociable mood.
"Yes, zur, it's a turr'ble big mound, vor zart'n. A nashun sight of volks come yer to look at'n; I doan't take much notice of her myself, but I've heerd my feyther tell as they druv a hole into her innards onc't, an' vound zummat or awther."
(Round about Wiltshire. A. G. Bradley 1907)
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