bratchet

Updated: May 25, 2025

"Nobody," he said, "calls me to these mysteries and he leaves me here to play horse-keeper and child-keeper at once. I could excuse the one, for I love a good horse naturally; but to be plagued with a bratchet whelp. Whence come ye, my fair-favoured little gossip?" "From the Fens," answered the boy. "And what didst thou learn there, forward imp?"

Sir Walter Scott - Kenilworth