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Thread #157219 Message #3709145
Posted By: Noreen
15-May-15 - 05:49 PM
Thread Name: Meaning of 'ball and down'?
Subject: RE: Meaning of 'ball and down'?
Looks like Kate was using Frank Kidson's version, from his mum:
White Cockade (The Summer Morning)
which has "to a flowing bowl, and down,
They advanced me..." etc.