baithways

Updated: June 8, 2025

He boasts in one of his rhymed addresses that he thatches the outside and lines the inside of many a douce citizen, "and baithways gathers in the cash." He adds "And fain would prove to ilka Scot, That poortith's no the poet's lot."

Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant - Royal Edinburgh: Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets