Crossword-Solution: CALLANT 7 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Lang syne, when I was a callant in the south country, I mind there was an auld, bald bogle in the Peewie Moss.

Soulis cam first into Ba’weary, he was still a young man—a callant, the folk said—fu’ o’ book learnin’ and grand at the exposition, but, as was natural in sae young a man, wi’ nae leevin’ experience in religion.

Wae’s me, for the puir callant than! He wambles like a poke o’ bran, An’ the lowse rein, as hard’s he can, Pu’s, trem’lin’ handit; Till, blaff! upon his hinderlan’ Behauld him landit.

This blithe callant was Charlie Malcolm, who had come all the way that day his leeful lane, on his own legs from Greenock, where the Tobacco trader was then ’livering her cargo.

The son of a gamekeeper, he grew up a long-legged, red-headed callant, lurking in the sombre shadow of the Cowgate, or like the young Sir Walter, championing the Auld Town against the New on the slopes of Arthur's Seat.