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That Whuppity Stoorie

Little kens our guid dame at hame, That Whuppity Stoorie is my name

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Little kens our guid dame at hame, That Whuppity Stoorie is my name (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

That Whuppity Stoorie is my name. well guess— laughing like a madcap with the thought of cheating the old green fairy. 'Ah well (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

Whuppity Stoorie (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

  • attestation: Little kens our guid dame at hame, That Whuppity Stoorie is my name (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

    "Little kens our guid dame at hame, That Whuppity Stoorie is my name."

  • attestation: That Whuppity Stoorie is my name. well guess— laughing like a madcap with the thought of cheating the old green fairy. 'Ah well (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

    "That Whuppity Stoorie is my name.

well guess— laughing like a madcap with the thought of cheating the old green fairy.

'Ah well"

  • attestation: Whuppity Stoorie (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

    "and, " In troth, fair madam," quoth she, " I might have had the wit to know that the likes of me is not fit to tie the worst shoe-strings of the high and mighty princess, Whuppity Stoorie""