A Window in Thrums

A Window in Thrums is a sorrowful tale about the lonely life of old Jess in the Scottish countryside. Excerpt: «On the bump of a green round which the brae twists, at the top of the brae, and within cry of T'nowhead Farm, still stands a one-story house, whose whitewashed walls, streaked with the discoloration that rain leaves, look yellow when the snow comes. In the old days the stiff ascent left Thrums behind, and where is now the making of a suburb was only a poor row of dwellings and a manse, with Hendry's cot to watch the brae…»