In addition, having to walk 3 miles to get water from the spring whilst evading cattle theives, must have been rather exhausting.
In my early years in Scotland, "thieves" were at least spelt correctly and tended, as now, to go for wallets rather than cows. In one of the places where I lived in that country, there was a spring that ran through the garden.
Thanks to English tax payers money, Scotland is beginning to dig itself out of the dark ages.
Those, I take it, are the "dark ages" in which Scottish laws were developed and exported to england for the use of the English; I don't think that scotland benefitted much from English taxpayers' money in those days. anyway, regrettable though I myself find it to be, it is surely some Scots who are now digging the English INTO a new dark age, given that the present and immediate past Prime Minister, the present and immediate past Chancellor of the Exchequer, the past Prime Minister's two predecessors as party leader, the past two leaders of the Liberal Democrat party and the present and last-but-one leader of the Tory party in Britain were/are Scots.
In some areas, they are even starting to undo the chains on the playground swings on the Sabbath.
Even were that true, would that not be somewhat insignificant by comparison to the shameful undoing of the entire pensions industry that has been occurring over the past ten years at the hands of a certain Scot?
Best,
Alistair