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Updated: May 23, 2025
And we are ready to take any punishment you think right to inflict." "It was only our madram," added Tom, using an old Shetland word, which Gaun Neeven had heard applied to himself in days gone by more often than any other term. "Only boys' madram," his gentle mother had so often said to excuse his foolishness and screen him from the results of many an escapade.
The boys caught each other's hands and formed a circle round Tammy, dancing, laughing, shouting, like the wildest of wild savages, until he recognised some of them, and added to their mirth by squatting in the midst of them, and saying, "Weel, noo! and I thought it wis the trows! My lambs, ye can carry on like yon till ye're weary. It's no puir Tammy 'at sall stop your madram.
"Madram!" muttered Neeven, as if he were thinking aloud, and had forgotten their presence. "Madram, boys' madram! There may be worse things in the world than that."
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