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Show The Odd People of Shetland. The stranger will still find many curious cu-rious and interesting relics of olden days und ways in Shetland. The ancient village vil-lage or "toun" of Souud, two miles from Lerwick, is a veritable nest of odd old folks and things. The inhabitants pique themselves on possessing the exact spot of ground on which their ancestors dwelt for more than a thousand years. They bhow tine scorn for "oopsiart Lerwick" in the oft quoted couplet: Sound was Sound when I-rwick was nane; Sound 11 be Bound when Lerwick is dune! and the "Sound wives" still visit Lerwick Ler-wick on Saturdays with their "kashifs" on their backs, their knitting in full swing, and their noses high in lofty contempt, con-tempt, waiting on one another until all are done with their errands or shopping, and then " returning to Sound, the embodiment em-bodiment of haughty toleration. Cor. Boston Transcript. |