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Updated: May 4, 2025
The room contained two dilapidated old coffin-beds, a dresser, a high-backed arm-chair, several three-legged stools, and two tables, of which one could be packed away beneath the other. In one corner stood the wheel at which Cree had to fill his own pirns.
They are all gone now, the old allies and tutors in the angler's art the kind gardener who baited our hooks; the good Scotch judge who gave us our first collection of flies; the friend who took us with him on his salmon- fishing expedition, and made men of us with real rods, and "pirns" of ancient make.
They were accordingly apprehended by Philip du Four, Provost, with some of his followers. "How often," he said, "will you bring me such ill winded pirns to ravel out?
Long before they reached their teens they were earning their keep as herds in the surrounding glens or filling "pirns" for their parents; but they were generally on the brink of twenty before they thought seriously of matrimony.
Long before they reached their teens they were earning their keep as herds in the surrounding glens or filling "pirns" for their parents; but they were generally on the brink of twenty before they thought seriously of matrimony.
Women left their spinning-wheels and pirns to follow them with their eyes along the Tenements, and the minister was known to be holding an extra service at the manse. When the little procession reached the boundary-line between the two parishes, they sat down on a dyke and waited.
Sometimes, the threads grew so tangled, that I sighed with impatience and worry, the weft bears the marks in the weaving they are plain, in unwinding the pirns and still, 'twas a labor of love, this patchwork of sunlight and shadow, this discord of sorrow and song.
Women left their spinning-wheels and pirns to follow them with their eyes along the Tenements, and the minister was known to be holding an extra service at the manse. When the little procession reached the boundary-line between the two parishes, they sat down on a dyke and waited.
The warper did not for a moment take his eyes off a contrivance with pirns in it that was climbing up and down the whirring mill. "She's dead," he answered. "She's dying," said the smith. A thread broke, and Aaron had to rise to mend it. "Stop the mill and listen," Auchterlonie begged him, but the warper returned to his seat and the mill again revolved.
She would come in and sit down in the very middle of one of my grandfather's most private bargainings with the people to whom he sold his spools and "pirns." She had her say in everything, and she said it so easily and so much as a matter of course that no one was ever offended.
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