Crossword-Solution: CLOUR 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Onyway it behoved him to get an auld, decent wife to keep the manse for him an’ see to his bit denners; and he was recommended to an auld limmer—Janet M’Clour, they ca’d her—and sae far left to himsel’ as to be ower persuaded.

Weel, when it got about the clachan that Janet M’Clour was to be servant at the manse, the folk were fair mad wi’ her an’ him thegether; and some o’ the guidwives had nae better to dae than get round her door cheeks and chairge her wi’ a’ that was ken’t again her, frae the sodger’s bairn to John Tamson’s twa kye.

Them that kenned best said least; but they never gied that Thing the name o’ Janet M’Clour; for the auld Janet, by their way o’t, was in muckle hell that day.

This Janet M‘Clour was a big lass, being taller than the curate; and what made her look the more so, she was kilted very high.

But if I did so, and came presently to _doun_, which is the classical Scots spelling of the English _down_, I should begin to feel uneasy; and if I went on a little farther, and came to a classical Scots word, like _stour_ or _dour_ or _clour_, I should know precisely where I was—that is to say, that I was out of sight of land on those high seas of spelling reform in which so many strong swimmers have toiled vainly.