cratur

I dinna think that in a' nature there's a mair curiouser cratur than a monkey.

Here he rowed up the note like a baw in his hand, and put it into his coat pouch like any rational cratur.

Is't no' a sin an' a shame for a cratur like that to work in a place like this?

Lastly he sent "the Dougal cratur," dressed in Andrew Fairservice's ancient garments, to see them safe upon their way.