ki-hoi

Updated: July 26, 2025

And he was not gone long when he came back with a woman who walked tiptoe into the doorway. "That's the puir cratur," said he; "seekin' for whit he'll never find, like the man with the lantern playin' ki-hoi wi' honesty." She looked with interest at the stranger, said no word, but disappeared. The peats sunk upon the hearth, crumbling in hearts of fire: on the outer edges the ashes grew grey.

Neil Munro - Doom Castle