kerse's

Updated: May 18, 2025

In the contest, Kerse's eldest son and hope, Jock, is killed, and the point or moral of the narrative is, the contempt with which the old laird looks on that event, as compared with the grave affair of flitting the sow. A retainer who comes to tell him the result of the battle stammers in his narrative on account of his grief for Jock, and is thus pulled up by the laird

John Hill Burton - The Book-Hunter: A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author