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Updated: June 12, 2025
"Here are women and men gane gyte wi' the tellin' o' death and murder and where is Dan McBride?" "There is nae murder that I ken," said I, "and the hogs are doing finely." I believe the man had clean forgot about the sheep. "Hogs," quo' he; "deil tak' the braxy beasts. Sir, where is Dan McBride?" and at that I told him. "And there's more yet," said I, for I had passed my word.
And the hillman danced on the toes of the Bailie of Dumfries and shook the barriers with his hand till he received a rap over the knuckles from the handle of a partisan directed by the stout arms of Andro the Penman. "Haud back there, heather-besom!" cried the archer, "gin ye want ever again to taste 'braxy'!" Over the rest of the field the fortune of war had been somewhat various.
"But for me, my wumman, ye'd hae been braxy ere nicht," she told it as it departed bleating. Then she realized that she had come a certain distance. "Losh, I maun be gettin' back or the hen will be spiled," she cried, and was on the verge of turning. But something caught her eye a hundred yards farther on the road.
Long after, it would come back to me, the oddity of that spectacle in the hollow a man in a red fealdag, with his hide-covered buckler grotesquely flailing the grass, he, in the Gaelic custom, making a great moan about his end, and a pair of bickering rooks cawing away heartily as if it was no more than a sheep in the throes of braxy.
Wat summoned all to come and drink, and Harden, having no fear of reprisals, did not forbid it. Sim was becoming a man again. He had bathed his bruises and scratches in the burn, and Will o' Phawhope, who had skill as a leech, had set his arm and bound it to his side in splints of ash and raw hide. He had eaten grossly of flesh the first time since the spring, and then it had only been braxy lamb.
The few poor dwellers in Monk Grange had little to do with the market-town. They lived mostly on what they managed to raise and rear among themselves holding braxy mutton good enough for feast-days, and oatmeal porridge all the year round the finest food for men and bairns alike.
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