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014 - The Lhondoo and the Ushag-reaisht · Manx Fairy Tales

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  Speaker 1: Chapter thirteen of Manx Fairy Tales. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: by Phone Manx Fairy Tales by Sophia Morrison. The lawn
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  Speaker 1: Dieu and the Ushak raised one time. Londeu, the blackbird,
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  Speaker 1: was living in the mountains, and Ushak raised the bird
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  Speaker 1: of the Waste, as Manx once called the golden Plover,
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  Speaker 1: was living in the lowlands, and neither of them was
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  Speaker 1: able to leave his own haunts. One day, however, the
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  Speaker 1: two birds met on the borders between mountain and plain,
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  Speaker 1: and they made it up between them that they would
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  Speaker 1: change places for a while. The bird of the waste
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  Speaker 1: should stay in the mountains till the Londeux should return.
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  Speaker 1: The Londeux found himself better off in his new home
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  Speaker 1: than in the old one, and he did not go back.
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  Speaker 1: So the poor bird of the waste was left in
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  Speaker 1: the mountains, and any day you may hear him cry
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  Speaker 1: in a mournful voice. Lon Diu, Fellow cheat, Bellow, cheat,
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  Speaker 1: t Swari Meyrilla, gu black thrush. Are you coming? Are
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  Speaker 1: you coming? The time is long and you are not here.
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  Speaker 1: But the Londu answers, chaijag Dibra, chayag dibra, will never come,
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  Speaker 1: will never come. Then the poor ushakrashed wails, tefea fair,
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  Speaker 1: tefea fair. It's very cold, it's very cold. Then the
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  Speaker 1: blackbird goes his ways. End of chapter thirteen.