Pisky now will do no more good.
Here, also, one should compare William Nicholson’s account of the brownie of Blednoch[3], in Galloway, who wore next to no clothing:—
Roun’ his hairy form there was naething seen,
But a philabeg o’ the rushes green.
So he was driven away for ever by a newly married wife wishing him to wear an old pair of her husband’s breeches:—
But a new-made wife, fu’ o’ rippish freaks,
Fond o’ a’ things feat for the first five weeks,
Laid a mouldy pair o’ her ain man’s breeks
By the brose o’ Aiken-drum.
Let the learned decide, when they convene,