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Glaister on the Curlie! - Ice Skates

1930,
Glaister on the Curlie! - Ice Skates
Glaister on the Curlie! - Ice Skates
Glaister on the Curlie! - Ice Skates
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Item no
39835
Title
Glaister on the Curlie! - Ice Skates
Description
The following writing was inspired by wintry objects in the Museum of Childhood collections. The writers are part of 26, a group of writers with a love of words, who have invented a form of writing, called a sestude, consisting of 62 words.

'Glaister on the Curlie!'

'Wee Nancy's buits?
Me, skitin roond the truth:
'Fit me fine!'
In ma heid, I'm pirlin bonnilie,
A white whipitie-stourie.
Freeze this forever!

Lang walk, snell wind, scadded legs.
'Get yer skates on!'
(Fingers an taes blue wi cauld.)
Twa tics ... a tussock comes afore a faa.
Sklither on the glaister.
Weet dowp, skint knees ... black an blue wi pride.'

By Aimee Chalmers

Image: Ice skates 1930s
Date
1930
Location
Museum of Childhood