Jennie’s Story

Jennie’s Story

A personal tragedy unfolds before a young girl’s eyes. Ethyl Smith’s story based on a real event in Scottish history is as shocking as it is moving.

In ma dreams, I see sodgers in reid coats airmed wi muskets an swords, horses champin and snortin. And then, worst o aw, ah see the man that haunts me day and nicht.

 

In ma dreams, I see sodgers in reid coats airmed wi muskets an swords, horses champin and snortin. And then, worst o aw, ah see the man that haunts me day and nicht. This man dressed aw in bleck. They cawed him Claverhoose or Bluidy Clavers. In ma dreams this Bluidy Clavers aye wears a big, wide-brimmed hat wi a white feather. He aye rides a bleck horse. And yon face is aye as haurd as stane wi a mooth like a rat-trap and cauld grey een that daur ye tae argue wi him.