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“Wee Willie Winkie rins through the toun, Upstairs and dounstairs, in his nicht-goun, Tirlin' at the window, cryin' at the lock, "Are the weans in their bed? for it 's nou ten o'clock."”
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- Source:
- Willie Winkie.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4e5ce8a005efb1eebd3653ebeef378011d53cfc697324707c357e6d3a6308365
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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