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john  Morrison  caie

John Morrison Caie was born it Banchory Devenick on 20 Aagist 1878 but wis and vrocht up in the parish o Enzie in Banffshire far his fadder, Revd William Caie wis menister o the kirk.  As a bairn he went tae Milne's Institute in Fochabers, Moray far he wis a contemporary of Willie Baxter (o soup fame) an Davy Reid fae Port Gordon.  Richt throuw his life he hid an affa affection for the Enzie and he scrieved aboot it mony times.

Efter Milne's he went tae the Aiberdeen Varsity far he wis learnt law and agronomy; he graduatet we MA, BL an BSc.  He becam a civil servant and jynt the Buird o Agriculture o Scotland in 1912.  He endet up as Depute Secretar tae the Buird throughoot the Second Worl Waar far he oversaa the production of mait.  He wis honoured we Companion of the Bath (CB) be King George VI.  
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Enzie Kirk far Caie's fadder wis menister.
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​Richt throuw his career as a civil servant, Caie wis affa weel-kent for his poems, maistly aboot rural life in the North-East, draain on his memories fae fan he wis a bairnie in Banffshire.  He wis prood tae scrieve in his ain Doric tung.  The Puddock is ain of his maist weel-kent and weel-loved poems.   


In 1940, he wis electit as a Fellow o the Royal Society o Edinburgh and awardet an Honorary Doctorate (LLD) be Aiberdeen Varsity in 1945.  He deid affa sudden in Aiberdeen on 22 December 1949.
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Lug in tae a pucklie o the bairns fae Millbank Primary Skweel in Buckie reading John Caie
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COMING SEEN:
Click ablo fir The Kindly North be J.M. Caie.
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A  BANFFSHIRE  LOON

JM Caie is a prood Banffshire loon we the coonty aften bein the subject of his wark.  We gotten Primary Seven at Millbank Skweel in Buckie tae records some o his poems, including the Puddock and Snaw as weel as some lines aboot his ain hame coonty o Banffshire. 
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ELLA  READS  THE  PUDDOCK

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ERYN, JOEL &  BETHANY  READ  SNAW

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Derrick McClure spak aboot Caie in Language, Poetry and Nationhood  an notit thit ‘farming life is a dominant theme of his poetry: but there is no idealisation of that life in the elegiac and often gloomy and fatalistic meditations which his characters conduct in a rich, authentic and skilfully-turned Doric.’  Caie hid an affa dry sense o humour fit can be seen short verses far he often shows jist foo contermashious fowk can be, like in his poem Heaven:
A croon, a harp, a bonnie sang,
Wi’ naething tae dee but tak’ wir ease,
An’ still-an’-on we’re loath tae gyang –
Dod, but fowk’s gey ill tae please.
His wry sense o humour nae doot contributet tae his popularity as an efter-denner spikker.

J.M.  CAIE'S ENZIE

The Lairdship o the Enzie lies in the nor-west o Banffshire; it his nivver haen a weel-definet boundary an the modren parish is aften confused for the hail lairdship.  It stretches fae Rathven and Finechty oweby by Buckie gye near tae Fochabers.  An, of course, it gings "up the hill", the Enzie Braes taewards Aultmore be Keith.  The Enzie wis it the hairt o auld Scottish Catholicism and thone legacy is still clear iday we twa historic auld Catholic kirks, St Ninian's and St Gregory's Preshome. 
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THE ENZIE

I foregaithered a'e day wi' an' Enzie loon,
An' wee-a-wat there was twa o's,
Sae doon we sat for wee bit crack,
An' there we bade, an we spak an' we spak'-
Nae eyn there was tae the jaw o's;
An' the names, as the pairis we wan'ered roon
Had a lilt an' a sough like a lang-kent tune.


There's Birkenbush, an' Sauchenbush, the Smerick an' Slackheid -
The bonny ferms are there yet, but the aul' fowk main be deid -
Portgordon an' Port Tannachy, Cowfurrich an' Broadley -
An for Pharpar an' Abana gi'es the Tynet an' the Spey.

There's Dallachy an' Gollachy, Wellheads an' Allolath,
The sandy road tae Clochan, an' Whiteash's strait wee path'
There's Auchenreath, Glasterim, Auchenhalrig an' Oxhill,
An' Chapelford, an' Tullochmoss, the Holl, the Breem, the Mill.

There's Muir o' Holmie, Cairnfield, Preshome an' Cuttlebrae,
The big dark wids o' Fochabers, St Ninians, Auchentae.
The Cockhat Kirk (a queer name thon!) an' Oran an' Howcore,
An' up the brae there's Starryhaugh, Scaphard an' syne Aultmore.


A curnie daft auld-Farrant wirds tae them that disna ken,
Bit something mair, oh something mair, tae twa auld Enzie men. 


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MAKENNA   READS  TWA  LINES  O  THE  ENZIE

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A curnie daft auld-Farrant wirds tae them that disna ken,
Bit something mair, oh something mair, tae twa auld Enzie men. 
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CHARLEY  READS  A  VERSE  O THE  ENZIE  FOWK

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"Tae him that's been in Banffshire bred
Yon lan' and fowks the best,
An aye some neuk there be'at tae be
Still dearer nor the rest".

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