a-seeken

Updated: May 8, 2025

The man was bewildered; he stared at the vacant aperture, then at us in turn, as if he doubted the accuracy of his own vision. "'Tis tarnation odd," he said; "but the women heard it too." "I heard a sound," I said, "a dreadful sound, but I saw no ghost." "Sure an' 'twas himsel'," said my lowland Scotch girl, who now perceived the joke; "he was a-seeken' to gie us puir bodies a wee fricht."

Susanna Moodie - Roughing It in the Bush