Haggis?

Nah. You have to trap those, and the skins aren't eaten, they're
turned
into ceremonial headgear for the Scots Guards.

I've never had a hairy haggis ... sounds like GM to me.

Have you ever bought woolly mutton in the butcher's shop?

No. The only mutton we eat is bred by a daughter. She has the wool.
You have to
trap them yourself if you want the haggis skins as the proper wild
ones
are worth an awful lot more than the meat inside.

We harvest our own haggis skin but not by trapping, I thought it was
illegal
to trap the haggis..

I think you're confused about haggises. It's very easy ...

Good Lord no! Confused about the haggis? (Some dispute in academe about
the plural - haggi; gaggisi; haggata; haggises; haggista; hagemoni.
Etym. doubtful.)

What I used is among that lot. It seems to me to be the most appropriate -
and I thought about it long and hard.

Indeed, I have studied the Highland haggis and the Lothian haggis since
the mid 'fifties, having become interested while investigating the rare
Lowland haggis, which is not a haggis at all, but in fact a close
relative of the giant puffball, Lycoperdon gigantum.

Oh well!

There are many misapprehensions concerning this cute wee beastie wi' the
sonsie face, and if I can only find a publisher I could sweep them all
away in one enormous tome.

I have a publisher friend, what's it worth?

Mary

HTH

--
Rusty Hinge http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm

Author of 'The Haggis in Fact and Fable'
Publisher eagerly sought.