George MacDonald Fraser Quote

On occasion they were cut down in cold blood or hanged on the spot; in the saying of the Border, which has passed into the language, they had been taken red-hand, which was in the deede doinge, and the law was not likely to call a trod-follower to account if his rage got the better of him and he despatched a reiver out of

George MacDonald Fraser

On occasion they were cut down in cold blood or hanged on the spot; in the saying of the Border, which has passed into the language, they had been taken red-hand, which was in the deede doinge, and the law was not likely to call a trod-follower to account if his rage got the better of him and he despatched a reiver out of

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