bullsegs

Updated: May 24, 2025

"Where is Christie of Clint-hill?" said Martin. "I do not know," said little Mary; "I never saw him." "And what made you, ye misleard loons," said Dame Elspeth to her two boys, "come yon gate into the ha', roaring like bullsegs, to frighten the leddy, and her far frae strong?" The boys looked at each other in silence and confusion, and their mother proceeded with her lecture.

Sir Walter Scott - The Monastery