Was Captain Macheath here this Morning, for the Bank-notes he left with you last Week?

'And when we come to that lane your worship speaks of,' said Sancho, 'how far shall we have gone?' / 'Very far,' said Don Quixote, 'for of the three hundred and sixty degrees that this terraqueous globe contains, as computed by Ptolemy, the greatest cosmographer known, we shall have travelled one-half when we come to the line I spoke of.'

Sometimes the gue—the ancient two-stringed violin of the islands—would appear; sometimes one of the company would sing a Norn veesick while the young people performed a circular dance, their steps changing with the tune. […] With the decay of the Norn language in the eighteenth century (though many Norn words still survive in the Orkney and Shetland dialect), the veesicks gradually disappeared. Scottish dances were introduced into the islands, and […]

We plan to roll out the new version in September.