(botuchan so-will) ‘The Little Old Man of the Barn’. A barn Brownie who took pity on old men, and treshed for them. D. A. Mackenzie gives us a verse about him in his Scottish Folk Lore and Folk Life: When the peat will turn grey and shadows fall deep And weary old Callum is snoring asleep… The Little Old Man of the Barn Will tresh with no light in the mouth of the night, The Little Old Man of the Barn. Little Old Man of the Barn When the peat will turn grey and shadows fall deep And weary Old Callum is snoring asleep… The Little Old Man of the Barn Will thresh with no light in the mouth of the night, The Little Old Man of the Barn.