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Did his enemies wish to see him howk out her grave with his own hands?

Hugh Stevenson used to have the "sole right to howk coal in Brodie's Glen" up the Maich Water.

After his wife had died, and none came near him, and he was left to howk out her grave with his own hands, I gave him prisoners to bury her, and when he was done with them I set them free.