Summer reading fun: Robert W. Service

Robert William Service (16 January 1874 – 11 September 1958) was a British-Canadian poet and writer, often called “the Bard of the Yukon”. I’m a vernacular aficionado, and this is one of my all-time favorites, written in “an accent o’ Scotland”. Enjoy. “Bessie’s Boil” by Robert W. Service Says I to my Missis: “Ba goom, […]

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