Crossword-Solution: LINTIE 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

The wren--him that hops in the grass below the birks--has the story of the Lost Ladies of the Land, which is ower auld and sad for any but the wisest to hear; and there is a wee bird bides in the heather-hill--lintie men call him--who sings the Lay of the West Wind, and the Glee of the Rowan Berries.

Hitherto the junior reporter had never had a “two-column chance.” He had read--it was not much that he _had_ read--Macaulay’s too famous article on “Satan” Montgomery, and, not knowing that Macaulay lived to regret the spirit of that assault, he felt that if he could bring down the “Night Hawk” on “The Heather Lintie,” his fortune was made.

But still worse is it for that poor thrush, or lintie, or robin, or warbler-wren, if he flutters in his bosom when he spies that cat, and sets up his feathers, and begins to hop about, making a sad little chirp to his mate, and appealing to the sky to protect him and his family.

The nest o' a lintie I fondly explored, And plundering bykes was the game I adored; My pleasures did vary, as I was unsteady, Yet I always found something that pleased when a laddie.

AIR--_"Oh, as I was kiss'd yestreen."_ At hame or afield I am cheerless an' lone, I 'm dull on the Ury, an' droop by the Don; Their murmur is noisy, and fashious to hear, An' the lay o' the lintie fa's dead on my ear.