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‘YOU MENTIONED YOUR NAME AS IF I SHOULD RECOGNIZE IT, BUT BEYOND THE OBVIOUS FACTS THAT YOU ARE A BACHELOR, A SOLICITOR, A FREEMASON, AND AN ASTHMATIC, I KNOW NOTHING WHATEVER ABOUT YOU.’
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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JIM HARGAN

JIM HARGAN

Swans glide by an old stone farmhouse on the Kennet and Avon Canal in the Vale of Pewsey.[/caption]

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‘HAD WE NEVER LOV’D SAE KINDLY, HAD WE NEVER LOV’D SAE BLINDLY, NEVER MET – OR NEVER PARTED, WE HAD NE’ER BEEN BROKEN–HEARTED.’
Robert Burns

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‘So just let me be beside the seaside I’ll be beside myself with glee For there’s lots of girls besides, I should like to be beside Beside the seaside! Beside the sea!’
John Glover-Kind

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‘FROM SCENES LIKE THESE OLD SCOTIA’S GRANDEUR SPRINGS, THAT MAKES HER LOVED AT HOME, REVERED ABROAD: PRINCES AND LORDS ARE BUT THE BREATH OF KINGS, ‘AN HONEST MAN’S THE NOBLEST WORK OF GOD.’ ’
Robert Burns