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Are ye to eat your meat by the cheeks of a red fire, and think upon this poor sick lad of mine, biting his finger ends on a blae muir for cauld and hunger?

"Lord's sake, miss," he exclaimed "d'ye relly mean to offend yer stomach wi' cauld water--when there's wine to be had for the asking!"

Fae een o last eer we read atween the lines foo life in the city wis ill tae thole - 'Granite, Victorian, cauld in the Wast Eyn like a time warp, gas lichts, cobbles, railins'.

The history lesson under the elm tree comes out of a lengthy exposition on the virtues of one's 'prime'--'the moment one was born for'--and it chimes and clashes with Elliot's line 'The prime of our land, are cauld in the clay'.

A' this while neither the snow nor the wind has been idle--and baith Cockneys are sitting up to the middle, poor creatures, no' that verra cauld, for driftin snow sune begins to fin' warm and comfortable, but, wae's me!

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An old Scottish song would lament: "The Flooers of the Forest, that focht aye the foremost/ The prime o our land, lie cauld in the clay."

An'wance there, ah spilled oot ma troubles,'n'he listened wi'some intent; Bit ma blood ran cauld when ah wis told:"It's yer age, ye see, ye'r noo gettin'auld." So some anti-inflammatory cream he prescribed fur me, This he predicted wid ease the pain in ma knee, especially when it was cauld'n'damp ye see.

The weaver-bard poeticises a winter day 200 years ago when: 'Yon cauld sleety cloud skiffs alang the bleak mountain and shakes the dark firs on the stey rocky brae.' Bardrain Wood, with its fern-fringed footpaths, tree-canopied glades and moss-mantled rocks, was one of my favourite boyhood haunts.

Cauld House, Guyzance Bridge, Acklington, is for sale through Sanderson Young for a guide price of PS300,000, tel: 01665 600 170.

Even though it is early spring, the wind is so strong and the frost so biting that the narrator is forced to retire from the window of his study to his bedchamber: "Schouris [showers] of haill gart fra the north discend, / That scantlie fra the cauld I micht defend", he says (Testament, ll.6-7).