Crossword-Solution: COCKPEN 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 17

UNDER THE WALNUT-TREE Mistress Jean was making the elder-flower wine-- ‘And what brings the Laird at sic a like time?’ LADY NAIRN, THE LAIRD OF COCKPEN Summer was nearly ended, and Lucy Thistlewood was presiding in the great kitchen of the Manor-house, standing under the latticed window near the large oak-table, a white apron over her dress, presiding over the collecting of elder-berries for the brew of household-wine for the winter.

Come, you need not knock me down; I shall never see any one to surpass the mother, and I'll have no one till I do." CHAPTER II The Population of Compton Poynsett He wanted a wife his braw hoose to keep, But favour wi' wooin' was fashous to seek.--Laird o' Cockpen In the bright lamplight of the dining-table, the new population first fully beheld one another, and understood one another's looks.

THE LAIRD O' COCKPEN.[50] The Laird o' Cockpen he 's proud and he 's great, His mind is ta'en up with the things o' the state; He wanted a wife his braw house to keep, But favour wi' wooin' was fashious to seek.

Dumbfounder'd he was, nae sigh did he gie; He mounted his mare--he rade cannily; And aften he thought, as he gaed through the glen, She 's daft to refuse the Laird o' Cockpen.

And now that the Laird his exit had made, Mistress Jean she reflected on what she had said; "Oh! for ane I 'll get better, it 's waur I 'll get ten, I was daft to refuse the Laird o' Cockpen." Next time that the Laird and the Lady were seen, They were gaun arm-in-arm to the kirk on the green; Now she sits in the ha' like a weel-tappit hen, But as yet there 's nae chickens appear'd at Cockpen.