birse

Tibbie Birse in the Burial is great, but I think it was a journalist that got in the word “official.”

But the particular flower of the flock to whom I have hopelessly lost my heart is Tibby Birse.

The local chronicler is much perplexed by another somewhat inelegant Aberdeenshire witticism—“Gang to Birse and bottle skate.”

Then in many a devious turn we wind round the northern boundary of the parish of Birse.

Tibbie Birse invited the newly-married couple to tea (one pound).