“Dear Andrew, with the brindled hair
Who glory to have thrown in air,
High over arm, the trembling reed,
By Ale and Kail, by Till and Tweed.”

—  Robert Louis Stevenson, book Underwoods

Bk. I, To Andrew Lang.
Underwoods (1887)

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