For the plain fac' is, Mr.St.Ivy, that I div not ken.

We have had crackit heids--and rowth of them--ere now; and we have had a broken leg or maybe twa; and the like of that we drover bodies make a kind of a practice like to keep among oursel's.

But a corp we have none of us ever had to deal with, and I could set nae leemit to what Gillies micht consider proper in the affair.

Forbye that, he would be in raither a hobble himsel', if he was to gang hame wantin' Faa.

Folk are awfu' throng with their questions, and parteecularly when they're no wantit.' 'That's a fac',' said Candlish.
I considered this prospect ruefully; and then making the best of it, 'Upon all which accounts,' said I, 'the best will be to get across the border and there separate.