What far wad they no' tak' ye in?
Does the man think he's a laird to refuse folk that gait ?" "He said he had illness in the house." Mrs.Morran meditated.

"Whae in the world can be lyin' there?
The man bides his lane.

He got a lassie frae Auchenlochan to cook, but she and her box gaed off in the post-cairt yestreen.

I doot he tell't ye a lee, though it's no for me to juidge him.

I've never spoken a word to ane o' thae new folk." Dickson inquired about the "new folk." "They're a' now come in the last three weeks, and there's no' a man o' the auld stock left.