Jessie The Jumbo

By Sheena Blackhall

Jessie the Jumbo is a selection of tales written originally in English for the hugely popular ‘Nickety Nackety’ children’s programme which was broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland and produced by Frieda Morrison. It drew fan mail letters from children all over the UK, and quite a few adults too, lorry drivers and tractor men amongst them. The format was trialled in Edinburgh nursery settings by Frieda Morrison to assess the reaction from the intended audience. A cast of the finest actors and actresses in Scotland dramatized the stories and brought the scripts to life. The selection of tales in Jessie the Jumbo, drawn from the Nickety Nackety Collection are those written by Sheena Blackhall, and here reset in Scots. The book will be featured on www.ScotsLanguageRadio.com . Frieda Morrison was the first mentor of this much loved North East children’s writer, and commissioned her earliest children’s tales.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sheena Blackhall
• Release date: Apr 8, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310694134

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Jessie the Jumbo

And other Bairn Tales in Scots

by Sheena Blackhall

from the Nickety Nackety Collection

Jessie the Jumbo

And other Bairn Tales in Scots

Copyright: S. Blackhall 2014

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Aknowledgement

Jessie the Jumbo is a selection of tales written originally in English for the hugely popular ‘Nickety Nackety’ children’s programme which was broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland and produced by Frieda Morrison. It drew fan mail letters from children all over the UK, and quite a few adults too, lorry drivers and tractor men amongst them. The format was trialled in Edinburgh nursery settings by Frieda Morrison to assess the reaction from the intended audience. A cast of the finest actors and actresses in Scotland dramatized the stories and brought the scripts to life. The selection of tales in Jessie the Jumbo, drawn from the Nickety Nackety Collection are those written by Sheena Blackhall, and here reset in Scots. The book will be featured on www.ScotsLanguageRadio.com. Frieda Morrison was the first mentor of this much loved North East children’s writer, and commissioned her earliest children’s tales.

Contents

Aknowledgement

1. The Tale o Jessie the Jumbo

2. The Tale o Victor Vratch the Craw

3.The Tale o Granny Riddle

4. The Tale o Peely Wally

5. The Tale o Rosy Vine

6. The Tale o the Twa Coorse Breets

7. The Tale o Snochrie the Snawman

8. The Tale o the Minnie Minnie Mony Feet

9. The Tale o Jeemsie’s Starnie

10. The Tale o Skirly an Mooch (1)

11. The Tale o Lowpity’s Teeth

12. The Tale o the Shargeret Fir Tree

13. The Tale o Waggity Will

14. The Tale o Kirsty the Coo

15. The Tale o Teenie Pence

16. The Tale o Birly Wheel

17. The Tale o Geordie the Gerbil

18. The Tale o Skirly an Mooch (2)

19. The Tale o Dauvit Duff

20. The Tale o Suzy the Soo

21. The Tale o Furly McFarlane

22. The Tale o Gracie Girn

23. The Tale o Bruce the Mervel

24. The Tale o the Bobbydazzler

25. The Tale o Coordy Custard

26. The Tale o Plinky frae Plong

27. The Tale o Rory the Stag

About the Author

1. The Tale o Jessie the Jumbo

It wis a byordnar hett day in the zoo. Even the monkeys war plottin. Jessie the Jumbo hodged her hurdies an showded back an forrit daein a wee daunce. Fyles, she didna mind that she bedd in a zoo, she thocht she wis back hame in the circus, richt in the mids o the ring, wi the potlicht full on her, an the ringmaister in his reid jaiket an blaik buits wheepin the sawdust fleer wi his lang wheep cryin.

Aabody quate PLEASE. I gie ye fur yer delicht .Jessie the dauncin Jumbo.

Jessie wad lowp, an boo, an furl her teenie weenie tail, an wallop her muckle tugs back an fore like twa sails, in time tae the music. At the hinneren, the ringmaister wad climm onno her tusks an thegither they’d merch aff tae deefenin applause. Oh, foo Jessie likit tae bear the balms skirls o delicht!

That, of coorse, wis afore she ran awa. She hidna socht tae bide awa fur guid jist ettled tae veesit her auld hame in lndia. Bit Jessie cudna mind far India wis. Jumbos are meant tae mind aathing.... bit fur aa she wis sic a muckle clort o a craitur, Jessie hidna the harns o a hen. Of coorse the circus didna wint her back efter yon. Jessie, wis sent tae the zoo. She didna mind bidin in the zoo bit fur ae thing. Kevin the keeper didna takk her on at aa. He wadna hae spat on Jessie if she wis on fire, he thocht sae little o her. He’d ay time tae news tae the giraffes, tho. Muckle, lang, treelipin breets thocht Jessie jealously, jist like clootie dumplins on stilts wi thrapples on them like claes poles! Kevin the keeper gied them sugar lumps, an scrattit their nebs, an wheeplit wee tunes tee them Syne aff he’d merch wi his cart tae the monke hoose. Jessie watched him halve the monkeys oxterfus o bananas. The monkeys ruggit aff the skins wi their hairy hauns an drappit them aawye. Nae mainners ava thocht Jessie. Bit the keeper likit them. He wis newsin awa tae them eenoo. Jessie flappit her lugs, an lippened tae their claik.

It’s the flooer show the morn, Kevin telt the monkeys , An it’s bin that hett aa ma flooers hiv crined an deed. They’ll niver win ony prizes noo. Efter as ma wirk it’s sic a peety. Watter’s scarce ye see wi this drooth.. An onywye, ma gairden hose has holes in it. Aa ma wirk’ll be clean connached an spyled.

Jessie the Jumbo thocht hard. I ken foo tae mak friens wi Kevin,