Crossword-Solution: BAIRNS 6 letters, 26 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

They stopped nine inches before running me down, and I heard Sandy's voice saying: "Weel, weel, Miss Sallie McBride! I'm thinking it's ower time you came back to tak' the bit bairns off my hands." That man had come three times to meet me on the off chance of the train's getting in some time.

She said: “O sir, ane of the bairns fand it lang syne at the Stanes; and when drawing it out we took fright, and thinking it had belanged to the fairies, we threw it into the bole, and it has layen there ever since.”’ This is for the one; the last shall be a sketch by the master hand of Scott himself: ‘At the village of Stromness, on the Orkney main island, called Pomona, lived, in 1814, an aged dame called Bessie Millie, who helped out her subsistence by selling favourable winds to mariners.

And if it’s the lassie ye’re gaun to see the nicht, I suppose I’ll just have to excuse ye! Bairns maun be bairns!’ she said, with a sigh.

The bairns see what their elders miss; they'll hunt me to an' fro, Till for the sake of -- well, a kiss -- I tak' 'em down below.

Not that such arguments are by any means rare, for all wildness is finer than tameness, but because fine wool is appreciable by everybody alike—from the most speculative president of national wool-growers’ associations all the way down to the gude-wife spinning by her ingleside.” Nature is a good mother, and sees well to the clothing of her many bairns—birds with smoothly imbricated feathers, beetles with shining jackets, and bears with shaggy furs.