Crossword-Solution: AILIE 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Crippled Tammy Barr called out in shrill excitement, “Ailie! O-o-oh, Ailie Lindsey, there's the wee doggie!” “Whaur?” The lassie's elfin face looked out from a low, rear window of the Candlemakers' Guildhall at the top of the Row.

Gin I had twa guile feet I could gang the bit way wi'oot shoon.” “I ken it isna so cauld,” Ailie admitted, “but for a lassie it's no' respectable to gang to a grand place barefeeted.” That was undeniable, and the eager children fell silent and tearful.

But oh, necessity is the mother of makeshifts among the poor! Suddenly Ailie cried: “Bide a meenit, Tammy,” and vanished.

Six-year-old Ailie slipped a shy finger into her mouth, and looked to the very much more mature five-year old crippled laddie to answer, “He was i' the kirkyaird.” “Sittin' upon a stane by 'is ainsel',” added Ailie.

Trouble brewed with the tea that Ailie Lindsey, a tall lassie of fifteen, but shy and elfish as of old, brought in on a tray from the scullery.