diction'ries

Updated: July 16, 2025

Davie is bound up in his diction'ries, and thinks little of Maggie noo; and he is gane far awa'. He'll ne'er come back to me, I'm feared; he'll ne'er come back! It is just anither wreck, Lizzie, for a' you left is ta'en awa' this day." It is a great grief to miss the beloved in all the home ways, but oh, how that grief is intensified when people not beloved step into their places!

Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr - A Daughter of Fife