love-bairn

Updated: July 22, 2026

She had made every preparation to go with her father and mother, and had her foot on the beam of the boat, when an old woman set up a cry for an oe that had been forgot in the confusion, and was now, likely, crying in the solitude of the back lands. It was the love-bairn of a dead mother, brought up in the kindly Highland fashion, free of every gimel and kail-pot.

Neil Munro - John Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn