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Updated: June 1, 2025
"And have you got rid yet of the Airgiod-cearc Sheila?" said Ingram, suddenly breaking in upon these dreams; "or does every owner of hens still pay his annual shilling to the Lord of Lewis?"
"You will do nothing of the kind, Sheila," said her father impatiently. "What is the Airgiod-cearc to you, that you will go over to Stornoway only to be laughed at and make a fool of yourself?" "That is nothing, not anything at all," said the girl, "if Sir James will only take away the tax." "Why, Sheila, they would treat you as another Lady Godiva!" said Ingram, with a good-humored smile.
"It is many and many a tax and a due Sir James will take away from his tenants in the Lewis, and he will spend more money a thousand times than ever he will get back; and it was this Airgiod-cearc, it will stand in the place of a great many other things taken away, just to remind the folk that they have not their land all in their own right.
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