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Such a parcel o' rogues in a nation.

https://youtu.be/Hyj6c5VPLHQ

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Ah, my maternal family were Scottish nationalists ... involved in the return of the Stone of Scone to Scotland -- or so family lore has it.

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I understand. When I was maybe 10 a very old lady took me to a clearing in the marshes around the Lake of Geneva. "Here," she said, "Here is where the hero of the liberation of the Canton of Vaud from Berne was executed. Never forget their treachery!"

It wasn't until sixty years later, when I visited Berne, that I remembered her warning; when I saw the bill from the B&B.

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