It is strange that I should still be left after so many changes, one of the three or four who can to-day stand on the brae and point out Jess's window.

The little window commands the incline to the point where the brae suddenly jerks out of sight in its climb down into the town.

The steep path up the commonty makes for this elbow of the brae, and thus, whichever way the traveller takes, it is here that he comes first into sight of the window.

Here, too, those who go to the town from the south get their first glimpse of Thrums.
Carts pass up and down the brae every few minutes, and there comes an occasional gig.

Seldom is the brae empty, for many live beyond the top of it now, and men and women go by to their work, children to school or play.