A Hair Raisin Eppysode

Wry obervations about rural life in north-east Scotland in the 1930s written by Barrowsgate in Doric

Barrowsgate recalls a shooting party he came across once, in Tillymannoch Wood, and although they all looked the part, none of them could shoot. In contrast, Rob o’ the Northies once neatly pinned a hare to his gate by shooting bootnails at it.