peat-creel

Updated: May 22, 2025

It was cosy, indeed, to see at evening the peat-smoke from well-governed and comfortable hearths lingering on the quiet air, to go where you would and find bairns toddling on the braes or singing women bent to the peat-creel and the reaping-hook.

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