yowes

Together with our masters to sheer the lambs and "yowes";

Sheep-Shearing Song 1998

It always comes in season the lambs and yowes to shear.

Sheep-Shearing Song 1998

'When I am on the hillside alone with the yowes I will be praying God may be with you -- when you are in the bush, will you not be praying for us?'

The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 Gordon Sellar

Ilk spring they’re new deckit wi’ bonie white yowes.

Song-A Lass wi’ a Tocher 1909

Ca’ the yowes, &c. While waters wimple to the sea, 25

Song-Ca’ the Yowes to the Knowes (older set) 1909

Ca’ the yowes, &c. Will ye gang down the water-side, 10

Song-Ca’ the Yowes to the Knowes (older set) 1909

Ca’ the yowes, &c. CONTENTS·BOOK CONTENTS·BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD·GLOSSARY

Song-Ca’ the Yowes to the Knowes (older set) 1909

It was the Scots air: 'Ca' the yowes to the knowes, 'which was a favourite of my father's.

Greenmantle John Buchan 1907

His gear may buy him kye and yowes, [wealth, cows, ewes]

Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

Sae there cam on a skirling and jumping wind and rain, and we a 'gat under a tree, the yowes and the dogs and Glenfernie and Drummielaw and me.

Foes Mary Johnston 1903