wiki-illiam q9!

[dubdobdee]

i: where warn’t there nobody but just me and pap left?
ii: where did Willingdon Beauty die peacefully in his sleep?
iii: where, in the Frome valley, did Angel, the pupil farmer, fall in love?
iv: where does Bessie, smelling like a cowshed, snore bass and gruff in a loft?
v: where did the farmer find his gin sprung with three toes of a lutrine paw lying in a red spatter about it?
vi: from its fulicine origins, and after periodic encounters with thymallus, what was the tributary’s ultimate landmark?
vii: which farm was successively demolished by Edward VI, William & Mary, George II and George IV?
viii: from which farm did Martin, the young gander, depart with his passenger?
ix: which farm of some 500 acres was Dickson’s retirement home?
x: to which farm, Jurby way, was Tommy sent to work?

the rules as they have evolved:
a: give nice full answers and anecdotes where possible!
b: say if googled or not, and leave a bit of a while for people to answer non-googlingly
c: you're obviously allowed to look ahead at future questions as (first) this was published in a national newspaper and i can't stop you and (second) i can't stop ME either, and have done exactly this
d: let other fora in same game be (unpoliceably) Out of Bounds till next set is up -- even tho obv they are all wronghead feebs compared to us

farms i presume: is i cold comfort? iii a hardy? iv is from under milk wood i think -- and one of them must be animal f

Comments

Re: Googled

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

v. is a ref to Tarka the Otter (lutrine => belonging to otter) by Williamson, 'gin' being a gin trap in which one of the family was caught. I've not read the book, and google hasn't revealed to me where the farm in question is.

Re: Googled

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

viii. is a ref to The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf. Martin is a tame goose that carries Nils on his back. There is a chapter called "On the Farm" in which geese feature, but I couldn't find anything more specific.

Re: Googled

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

ix. is Dickson McCunn's home in the John Buchan novel Castle Gay (1930), sited "on the spur of a Carrick moor, with the sea to the west, and to south and east a distant prospect of the blue Galloway hills".

So now you know.

And that's all I can find.