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Thread #56216   Message #877410
Posted By: GUEST,Keef
29-Jan-03 - 05:14 AM
Thread Name: Beagle or Beadle?
Subject: Beagle or Beadle?
In the song Craigie Hill there is a line that refers to The landlords and their agents, their bailiffs and their beagles. Call me a pedant if you will, but I think perhaps it should be Beadle (as in Mr Dickens parochial beadle) as I cannot percieve of what use a wuzzy slobbering beagle would be in a forced dispossion situation. I think a beadle was some minor beaurocrat of old. Am I right or wrong and does anyone else really give a stuff!