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chiel.

"That's a fair chiel yiv got thur Erchie, are ye pittin 'im in to the Games?"

Translated:

chiel: young man.

"That's a fine strong young lad you have there Archibald. Are you going to get him to enter the Highland Show competitions?"

[cheil spelled out in the phonetic alphabet.]

08, Aug, 2000.













Strapping lad carrying, stob, posts, mell, hammer and fence-wire underarm up a hill.

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