And was not that some ominous fowle, The BATT, the night-crow, or skreech-owle, To these I heare the wild woolfe howle, In this black night that seems to skowle.
"Old Church Lore"
William Andrews
Tradesman BATT, who had been in both Africa and America, was the only possibility, for even the Bergensians amounted to nothing.
"Look Back on Happiness"
Knut Hamsun