Drovers

This was a fairly easy read considering the time period. There were simple sentence structures, making an overall periodic style. Although he tends to write in lists and complex sentence structures when he's describing people or scenes. For example, when we meet Robin: "Of the number who left Doune in the morning, and with the purpose we described, not a Glunamaie of them all cocked his bonet more briskly, or gatered his tartar hose under knee over a pair of more promising spiogs (legs) than did Robin Oig M'Combuch, called familiarly Robin Oig, that is, Young, or the lesser, Robin." There's about 6 commas in there and about three different thoughts. 1) of the people who left in Doune 2)nobody cocked their bonets more briskly or gatered their tartars like Robin 3)Robin's clan name and his position being the "lesser" or "young."


The dialogue was difficult to comprehend. There were tons of slang terms I didn't understand like "Sual of my pody[...]" and "The drove can pe gang two, three, four miles [...]."

First person narration came out of nowhere.