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

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

iii = from Tess of the darbyvales, that dairy farm what they worked on

conditions under which i might ever read a hardy

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i. it wz called BUFFY of the d'urbervilles

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

ii. Is this Black Beauty's DAD?
vi. This isn't something to do with the old zoo at the Tower of London is it?
viii. If only this question was about Pigling Bland and Alexander I'd know the answer :(

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

What does fulicine mean? Is it like fuligine?

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

sorry dude, i have 0 idea on any of these without the p0wer of g00gle...

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

(ok I googled this) could it be something to do with grape-crushing/trampling?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

ii. is the Animal Farm one (WB is an a.k.a. for one of the pigs)

ok googlio-me-up

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

x. Jurby is on the Isle of Mang! I would like to think this is a TT racing farm or full of manx cats, but it's actually from 1x boring poem.

My Non-Googled Conclusion:

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The countryside is shit and the right can have it.

[agincourtgirl.livejournal.com]

x can be googled - it's from a really long poem (not by Kipling)

llareggyb dys

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

if iv is indeed under mile wood she is called bessie driver and it is hilltop farm?

"but i always think
as we tumble into bed
of little willie wonka
who is DED DED DED"

Googled

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

i. is "a little farm down at the bottom of Arkansaw" referred to by George Jackson in Chapter 17 of Huckleberry Finn

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.

google says

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Bessie BIGHEAD

SALT LAKE farm

but otherwise korrekt