- It were all I could do to pick her up and carry her to you.
- Yes, it must have been.
6 seconds sound clip from the The Snow Goose (1954) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:04:16 in the radio play.
Quote context
[...]
- Now we'll have to make a splint for a poor leg.
- Yes, that's right. You hold her while I find a splint among this firewood here.
- Well, these twigs will do, I think.
- I'll have to be a bit stronger than that.
- After all, she's a big bird, isn't she?
- Aye.
- It were all I could do to pick her up and carry her to you.
- Why don't you bring her in to me, I wonder?
- Yeah. Yeah, that's right. I'm fond of birds. I like looking after them.
- Where did she come from, did you say?
- From Canada. That's a land far, far across the seas. Beautiful daughter of England.
- She's quite a young bird. No more than a year old, I'd say.
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