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Definition of Yaffle:
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Then there is Mr Drinkwater with the enthusiasm of the just man for moonlit apples- 'moon- washed apples of wonder'- and the righteous man's sense of robust rhythm in this chorus from 'Lincoln':- 'You who know the tenderness Of old men at eve- tide, Coming from the hedgerows, Coming from the plough, And the wandering caress Of winds upon the woodside, When the crying yaffle goes Underneath the bough.
- "Aspects of Literature", J. Middleton Murry.