Crossword-Solution: GABS 4 letters, 97 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The lasses feat, an' cleanly neat, Mair braw than when they're fine; Their faces blythe, fu' sweetly kythe, Hearts leal, an' warm, an' kin'; The lads sae trig, wi' wooer babs, Weel knotted on their garten, Some unco blate, an' some wi' gabs, Gar lasses' hearts gang startin' Whiles fast at night.

The tragedy is brought about by a witch who drives Hedin, the brother of Helgi, to make a foolish boast, an oath on the Boar's head (like the vows of the Heron or the Peacock, and the _gabs_ of the Paladins of France) that he will wed his brother's bride.

Little could they foresee, with their spentacles of prophecy, that a battle of Waterloo would ever be fought, to make the confounded fugies draw in their horns, and steek up their scraighing gabs for ever.

Evening draws on, they drink deep, and, excited by their potations, indulge in _gabs_, or boasts, that are overheard by a spy, and carefully noted.

Threatened and insulted by his guests, Hugon declares they shall either accomplish their _gabs_ or pay for their lies with their heads.