shelty

Lowland smith would hammer shoon on a Highland shelty.

A Legend of Montrose 2008

“You, sir, doubtless, are well mounted, and I for the present travel on foot, or on a Highland shelty, that does not help me much faster forward.”

Rob Roy 2005

The only guest who had chalked-out other sport for himself was the stanchest of anglers, Mr. Rose; but he too was there on his shelty, armed with his salmon-rod and landing-net, and attended by his Hinves, and Charlie Purdie, a brother of Tom, in those days the most celebrated fisherman of the district.

Paras. 50-73 1909

With his head on his breast he let the shelty take its own road through the mosses.

The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907

The shelty shied at a line of firelight from the window, as Sim flung himself wearily on its back.

The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907

His shelty had broken back for the hill, but his spear lay a yard off.

The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907

It was ill riding on the braeface, and Sim and his shelty floundered among the screes.

The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907

The shelty came down over the rump of a red bullock, and Sim was sprawling on his face in the trampled grass.

The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907

The shelty had been recovered, and Sim to his pride found himself riding in the front with Wat and young Harden and others of the Scott and Elliot gentry.

The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907

Somehow or other Sim and his shelty got down the steep braeface.

The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907