A great flood occurred some years ago in the north of England; and as a number of people were collected on the banks of the tyne, whose waters had risen to an unusual height, a swan was seen swimming across the flood.
"Stories of Animal Sagacity"
W.H.G. Kingston
"I wat weel no," quo' the gude auld man; "I hae lived here threty years and thrie, And I ne'er yet saw the tyne sae big, Nor running anes sae like a sea."
"Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)"
Walter Scott
Till he had fifteen hundred men Assembled on the tyne.
"Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)"
Walter Scott