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Thread #119826   Message #2836181
Posted By: Steve Gardham
11-Feb-10 - 11:13 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Slough-foot Sue? / Slewfoot Sue
Subject: RE: Origins: Slough-foot Sue? / Slewfoot Sue
Check out the version at Bodleian Broadside Ballads Harding B11 (1016)
According to Kilgarriff it was in the repertoire of George Foster 1864-1946. And G W Hunter 1851-1936 who wrote most of his own material.

Surely slew-footed/duck-footed = splay-footed.