Word: briestit
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...edited the poem thoroughly, made the second stanza read: Her brow is like the snowdrift, Her neck is like the swan, Her face it is the fairest That e'er the sun shone on. . . . Willie Douglas' version: She's backit like the peacock, She's briestit like the swan; She's jimp about the middle, Her waist ye weel micht span. . . . Last week in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Captain Reginald Houldsworth was married to Margaret May Laurie, Annie Laurie's great-great-great-great-great-great niece. The bride was given away by her uncle...
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