wumman-stealer

Updated: June 15, 2025

While Gibbie had been answering questions and their parents had been talking, Lowrie was fidgeting in his chair, trying to gather courage to tell the yet more startling incident which occurred during the midnight trespass on Trullyabister. At last he managed to say, "Faither, I never could hae thought that Mr. Neeven was a was a bairn-stealer and a wumman-stealer."

Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby - Viking Boys