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Updated: June 3, 2025

Yet they oft came ill speed with their jests, for my brother had taught me to use my hands: and to hold a sword I was instructed by our smith, who had been prentice to Harry Gow, the Burn-the- Wind of Perth, and the best man at his weapon in broad Scotland. From him I got many a trick of fence that served my turn later.

Andrew Lang - A Monk of Fife