wathna

Updated: May 6, 2025

Weel, as I was saying, I let on I wanted the wee saw, and went into the kitchen one end's errand. It happened about the mid-hour o' the day. The clock had stoppit, I observed, at three and a half minutes to the twelve." "Hi!" cried the Deacon, "it'th a pity auld Gourlay wathna alive thith day!" "Faith, ay," cried Wylie. "He would have sorted him; he would have trimmed the young ruffian!"

George Douglas Brown - The House with the Green Shutters