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On still nights, the rhythmic gruntle and squeak of frogs carried across the water.
It had a gruntle in the heich of the heid, and under that it had twa een, ane nose and mouth, ane brow, ane cheek, ane tongue, and lugs like to the similitude of man in all sorts; the remanent thereof was ane othr gryce without hair.
"Gruntle," as a noun (Scottish dialect), means face, or the snout of a pig.