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Kemp, Duncan, c1820-1903 (fisherman | Poolewe | Ross and Cromarty)

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Fragment of a story entitled 'Cuckoo', June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/116
Scope and Contents

Fragment of a story entitled 'Cuckoo', collected from Dun[can] Ceàm [Duncan Kemp], Cove, Poolewe [Poll-iùbh, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty]. The story tells how while dismantling a cairn in Lochadring, Geàrrloch [Loch an Draing, Gairloch] he found a bird, which looked dead but revived and so he put it back in the cairn. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887