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Nan Shepherd on the house ‘up by’

Nan Shepherd on the house ‘up by’

In 1962, Nan Shepherd wrote a piece on the Downies of Braemar for The Deeside Field (now reprinted in Wild Geese). In it, she says: ‘We never climbed Morrone but we stopped to look at its ancient knobble of glass in one of the windows, to speak to the old people and perhaps be allowed …

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