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Updated: May 2, 2025
Nairn's smile was half a sigh. "There were no books and no many amusements when I was young. We sat through the long winter forenights, counting stitches, in the old gray house at Burnfoot, under the Scottish moors. That, my dear, was thirty years ago." She shook hands with Vane as he left the house with Jessy, and standing on the stoop she watched them cross the lawn.
"There's many a lilting laugh hidden in the ears o' this old tree, for here it was the cailleachs cam' tae spin in the long summer forenights, when everybody left their hames and took their beasts tae the hill for the summer. There were no dykes or hedges in those days, and the beasts had to be herded on the hill if the crops were to come to anything.
At school, Curly assumed the protectorship of Annie which had naturally devolved upon him, although there was now comparatively little occasion for its exercise; and Mrs Forbes, finding herself lonely in her parlour during the long forenights, got into the habit of sending Mary at least three times a week to fetch her.
"I suppose you read Milton to your grandfather?" "Ay, sometimes i' the lang forenights." "What do you mean by the forenights?" "I mean efter it's dark an' afore ye gang to yer bed. He likes the battles o' the angels best.
Man and beast shrink from the sudden cold snaps, as they call them, in that country, and the rancher, who has sheep to lose, sits shivering in his log house through the long forenights with a Marlin rifle handy, while the famished timber wolves prowl about his clearing.
Whan Juno's ance oot, she's no in a hurry in again." The boys separated and went home in a state of excitement, which probably, however, interfered very little with their appetites, seeing it was moderated in the mean time by the need and anticipation of their dinners. The sun set now between two and three o'clock, and there were long forenights to favour the plot.
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