Примечания

1

To be ‘corrie-fistit’ in certain parts of Scotland, is to be left handed — even in the present day.

2

This account has been taken more or less verbatim from a pamphlet entitled Within Our City Slums; it belongs to the chapter headed ‘Curious practices of the Glaswegian’. The pamphlet was published in 1932 but is still available in a few 2nd hand bookshops in the south of England.

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