cattle-reivers

Updated: June 14, 2025

Little Walter's father was a kindly Scots lawyer, but he came of a good old Border family, "A hardy race who never shrunk from war."* Among his forbears had been wild moss-troopers and cattle-reivers, lairds of their own lands, as powerful as kings in their own countryside.

H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth) Marshall - English Literature for Boys and Girls