The End Is Nigh

A venerable matron of the old school, in the whaling burgh of Peterhead, hearing that a comet was expected to appear, which would perhaps destroy the world, uttered the following lamentation:

“ What will the poor things that’s away to Greenland do, when they come hame from the fishing, and find that there’s no one left to come home to?”

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