windlestraes

Updated: June 15, 2025

I canna bide him; his een's never off me the hail day, an' mony a time I dinna ken whar to look." "Hoot, lassie," rejoined her mother; "ye aye mak bogles o' windlestraes. Duncan is an honest lad, I'll warrant him, an' willin to work, too, though he's no very guid o't.

Various - Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III