Dan McChree

DESCRIPTION: Tailor Dan McChree's mother had him take gruel to her maid, sick in bed with a headache. Dan told her to take it to "mak' your belly warm." "The lassie thocht her mistress Knew better than she" and took the "gruel." "She grew stoot aboot the waist"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1914 (Greig/Duncan7)
KEYWORDS: seduction medicine pregnancy mother rake servant
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Greig/Duncan7 1474, "Dan McChree" (1 text)
Roud #7182
ALTERNATE TITLES:
I'm a Tailor To My Trade
File: GrD71474

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