bauldy

Updated: May 2, 2025

When Bauldy Johnston said 'the thumb-mark of his Maker was wet in the clay of him, he saw the print of a thumb in wet clay, and he saw the Almighty making a man out of mud, the way He used to do in the Garden of Eden lang syne. So Bauldy flashed the two ideas together, and the metaphor sprang! A man'll never make phrases unless he can see things in the middle of his brain.

George Douglas Brown - The House with the Green Shutters