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"text": "Whan I was a callan, I took the play to mysel' for a week, or maybe twa, and gaed wi' a frien' i' the same trade's mysel', to see what was to be seen alang a screed o' the seacoast, frae toon to toon.",
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"text": "Sic changes owre oor toon hae passed Since Mungo placed thee there — A wee bit slender fragile stem, That needed watchfu' care.",
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"ref": "2011, Wulf Kurtoglu, Caroline Macafee, Braken Fences, page 43",
"text": "It tane Bill three month fae the time he pairtit wi Beatrice tae get tae the toon o Shanzi. He stuid on a crest as the sin rase, an saw the fortress toon on the neist ridge, a silhouette lichtenin gradually intae ugly breezeblock buildins.",
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"ref": "1872, David Ross Locke, The Struggles (social, Financial and Political) of Petroleum V. Nasby, page 556",
"text": "But why dress me in bloo? Why not in gray, ef I play Confedrit toons?",
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"ref": "1876, Eneas Sweetland Dallas -, Once a Week, page 45",
"text": "Hark at the way them wires plays toons, as if all the imps of wickedness, and—never mind where—was fiddling dismal toons on purpose to drive a man out of his wits, or to scare him so that he couldn't do his work.",
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