Henrietta the Hairy Haggis

Henrietta lived in a beautiful Scottish Highland Glen with her 12 baby haggis’s and her husband Harry.  Their life was blissfully happy and carefree.  Every day they would play in the sunshine and forage for purple heather, a favourite feast for a haggis.

Henrietta was a right-legged haggis as her two left legs were longer than her right.  This allowed her to run clockwise round the hill without falling off.

One day in August, the start of the shooting season, Henrietta came across a haggis hunt.  There were, what seemed like, 100’s of hungry hounds and big burly huntsmen.  Henrietta was terrified because she knew if they caught her they would eat her for dinner and her poor children would be left without a mother and Harry without a wife.

Unfortunately, one of the dogs saw her, even though she cowered in the heather, quieter than a field mouse.  It came running after her and, in her fear and confusion, she ran the wrong way round the hill.  This was a nigh on impossible feat for a right-legged haggis and she lost her balance and tumbled over and over and over down the hillside.  She kept rolling and rolling until she landed with a bump inside a badger set.  I don’t know who got the biggest surprise, Henrietta or Bertie the badger. The hounds, dug at the entrance to the set, howling loudly, but luckily they were too big to enter the badgers den. 

Although safe Henrietta started sobbing.  “What’s wrong” said Bertie.  Henriatta explained that, even though she was safe from the huntsmen, she would never be able to climb back up the hill to her babies and husband.  Bertie comforted her and suggested she climb on his back and he would take her home.  True to his word Bertie climbed the steep hill with Henrietta on his back and returned her to her family.  Henrietta and her family were overjoyed and couldn’t thank Bertie enough.  Henrietta learnt her lesson and no longer left her den during the shooting season!