bird-bag

Updated: May 27, 2025

But I was encouraged of the spirit to proceed. Just, however, as I parted from the herd, he cried after me, and pointed to a man coming up the hill at some distance, with a gun in his hand, and a bird-bag at his side, and two dogs at his heel, saying, "Yon'er's Sir George Maxwell himsel ganging to the moors. Eh! but he has had his ain luck to fill his pock so weel already."

John Galt - Ringan Gilhaize: or The Covenanters