above her, and then she covered everything up with the grass, which was
a very difficult thing to do, seeing she herself was at the bottom of
the basket. Then she lay quite still and waited.
Presently the Giant came in, and, obedient to his promise, he lifted the
creel and carried it off to the old Queen's cottage.
No one seemed to be at home, so he set it down in the entry, and turned
to go away. But the little Princess had told her sisters what to do, and
they had a great can of boiling water ready in one of the rooms
upstairs, and when they heard his steps coming round that side of the
house, they threw open the window and emptied it all over his head; and
that was the end of him.
[Illustration: Birthdays]
[Illustration: A Monanday's Child His a Bonnie Face]
[Illustration: A Tyesdays Child is Fou O' Grace]
[Illustration: A Wednesday's Child is the Child o' Woe]
[Illustration: A Feersday's Child Hiz Far To Go]
[Illustration: A Friday's Child is Lovin and Givin]
[Illustration: A Saitirday's Child Works hard for his Livin]
[Illustration: But them thats Born On Sunday Is happy, blithe, and Gay]
[Illustration]
GLOSSARY
A body a person
Airt direction
Ahint behind
Bairn child
Baudrons Scotch name for a cat
Ben in towards an inner room
Ben a mountain peak
Bicker to argue in a petty way
Bonnet-piece an old Scottish coin
Byre cowhouse
Canty kindly, cheerful
Cantrip a freak, or wilful piece of trickery
Chuckie-stone a small white pebble
Clout a blow
Cloving separating lint from its stalk
Clue a ball of worsted
Creel a large hand-made basket
Cutty-pipe a short clay pipe
Daft silly, weak-minded
Dander to walk aimlessly
Darkening the twilight
Divot a sod
Doo a dove
Douce sedate
Dowie dull, low-spirited
Dyke a wall
Eldritch weird
Emprise an enterprise
Entry a passage
Fain gladly
Feared afraid
Forbye besides
Gang go
Girnel a meal-chest
Gled a hawk
Gloaming the twilight
Greeting crying
Hantle very much, a considerable number
Havers nonsense
Heckle to comb
Hinnie a term of endearment
Hirple to limp
Histie "haste thee"
Inbye inside
Ingle neuk the corner by the fire
Joists the beams in a roof
Kailyard a kitchen garden
Ken know
Kirn a churn, to churn
Kist a chest
Knowe a little hillock
Lift the sky, the air
Light alight
Lintie a linnet
Lout to stoop
Lum chimney
Louping-on-stane a stone from which to mount a horse
Malison a curse
Meat food
Migraine a pain affecting one half of the head
Mutch a cap
Onstead farm buildings
Paddock a toad or frog
Pirnie a woollen nightcap
Poke a bag
Rivlins shoes made of cowhide
Sen' night a week
Shoon shoes
Siccan such
Siller money
Sinsyne since
Smatchet small boy
Sneck to latch or shut a door
Snibbit bolted, _snib_, a bolt
Thrapple throat
Thole to bear
Unchancy uncanny
Wheen a few
Wheesht be quiet!
Wight a person
Winnock a window
Winnow to separate the chaff from the grain by wind
Yestreen yesterday
Yule Christmas
Unicorns Ancient Scottish coins
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Transcriber's notes:
Taken out hypen in 'Mer-maids' and 'Mer-men' in Preface as not in text.
Leaving the two words 'tomorrow' and 'tomorrow' as is.
P.76. Taken out extra 'day' from 'day day'.
P.80. Taken out extra 'the' from 'the the'.
P.104. 'craried' is found in another version of this book, leaving as is.
P.124. Taken out extra 'did' from 'did did'.
P.144. Taken out hyphen in 'burn-side'.
P.161. Taken out hyphen in 'Yule-tide'.
P.263. Taken out hyphen in 'mis-shapen'.
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End of Project Gutenberg's The Scottish Fairy Book, by Elizabeth W. Grierson