Word: couldna
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...hairy-legged hi'landers and the proud switchin's o' their kilts bode fair to make this a noble screening o' that mirk rebellion o' 1745. But e'en were there ha' sae much blather as the remains of the movie showed, 'twould be wee wonder that the Scotsmen couldna win the war. A man mocht e'en think they wer'nae beaten at Culloden wi' clouds o' Redcoat shot 'n shell, but hae merely talked themselves to death...
...fathers carrying children in their arms marched behind mine-union banners. As he saw the banner of his own Hetton-le-hole Lodge go by he said: "Those youngsters are born Socialist. The blood on the coal's the same as wot's in their veins. I couldna bin two year old when me dad first carried me on 'is shoulder behind that banner. 'E wor unemployed then and for years aft.gr...
...remember when we wor turned out of our colliery 'ouse-nowhere ter go because the coal owners owned all the 'ouses. We slept where we could, till me dad got work again. But me mother died-she couldna stand it no longer. And when I wor 13,1 started in the pits pushing tubs...
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