ill-wark

Updated: May 26, 2025

Will you come ben a minute?" He responded at once to her desire "What is it, Maggie?" he asked. "If it please you, sir, I dinna want Davie to ken anything anent to-night's ill-words and ill-wark." "I think that is a very wise decision." "No gude can come o' telling what's ill, and if you wad believe me, sir, I'm vera, vera sorry, for my share in it."

Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr - A Daughter of Fife