bootlese

Updated: June 13, 2025

And there was two wee barns; and she prayed him hard to confess the marriage, poor thing! But t'was a bootlese bene, and he would not allow they should bear his name, but their mother's; he was a hard man, and hed the bit in his teeth, and went his ain gait.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3