Lighting A Fire Quotes

“Night had fallen and because of the Comanche we couldn’t light a fire.”
― Karl May, Old Surehand

“Outside, its a hard frost but a pale blue sky, an the kail an sprouts in the gairden are bairdit wi white. In the wuids a hoodie-craw's cawin, an the hedges are full o cocky wee robins shoutin the odds. The swing o the axe an the crack o splittin sticks lets distant neibours ken ye're up, ye've got throu anither nicht. Then twistin the Southern Reporter inti spirlies, coverin them wi kindlin an coal, an a match ti the fire: the day begins wi a mug o tea an a slice o toast, nithert in the ingle. Ay, Niel Gow's auld tune 'Whisky at Nicht an Dry in the Mornin' has some truth ti't tae.”
― Brian Holton, Ayont the Thistle: A gallimaufry of poetry and prose to mark the centenary (1926 - 2026) of Hugh MacDiarmid's 'A Drunk Man looks at the Thistle'