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Updated: June 19, 2025
Nevertheless, when he heard the word broonie issue from a face with such an expression as Jean's then wore, his heart seemed to give a gape in his bosom, and it rushed back upon his memory how he had heard certain old people talk of the brownie that used, when their mothers and grandmothers were young, to haunt the Mains of Glashruach.
She could not recall what she had seen, or how she had known it; but the conviction remained that she had seen his face, and that it was infinitely beautiful. "He has been wi' me a' the time, my God! He gied me my father, and sent Broonie to tak' care o' me, and Dooie, and Thomas Crann, and Mrs Forbes, and Alec. And he sent the cat whan I gaed till him aboot the rottans.
Then in came the brownie again; and when Jean Mavor entered, there was her work done as usual. Fergus was hours late for breakfast, and when he went into the common room, found his aunt alone there. "Weel, auntie." he said, "I think I fleggit yer broonie!" "Did ye that, man? Ay! An' syne ye set tee, an' did the wark yersel to save yer auntie Jean's auld banes?" "Na, na! I was o'er tiret for that.
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