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Updated: September 9, 2025
But I maun tell you the story frae the beginnin'. You've mibby heard me speak aboot Meg Mortimer's mither that used to bide at The Drum. Meg's in a big wey o' doin' noo in Edinboro; but I've seen the day, I'm thinkin'! Weel div I mind when her mither flitted ower frae Powsoddie. She cam' along to oor hoose to seek the len' o' twa kists, juist to gie her flittin' some appearance on the cairts.
"'You need na bring thae big kists in here, quoth Mistress Robertson; 'I ha'e na room in my house for strangers an' their luggage. "'Your house! gasped Jeanie, catchin' her arm. 'Did ye na tell me that he lived here? an' wherever Willie Robertson bides, Jeanie Burns sud be a welcome guest.
Beddoe pronounced the remains to be neolithic, and the persons here interred were of a dolichocephalic or long-skulled race sometimes known as the long barrow-builders, who generally buried their dead without cremation. There were some tiny kists for children, but a great number of the bodies had been buried uncoffined.
Where the kists did not let in the damp or careless fingers, the paper long remained clean, the ink but little faded. Some of the letters were creased, as if they had once been much folded, perhaps for slipping into secret hiding-places, but none of them bore any address or a date. "To my beloved," was sometimes written on the cover, and inside he was darling or beloved again.
In the same way, if dealing with ornament, I would derive the spirals, volutes, and concentric circles of Mycenaean gold work, from the identical motives, on the oldest incised rocks and kists of our Islands, of North and South America, and of the tribes of Central Australia, recently described by Messrs. Spencer and Gillen, and Mr. Carnegie.
I was in the house where my mistress was, sitting dozing an' half sleeping in the kitchen. I thought aye she would be setting out every minute, for twa hours." "And, when you went home, what did you find?" "What found we? Be my sooth, we found a broken lock, an' toom kists." "Relate some of the particulars, if you please."
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