"He wad hae been intil't again in a moment, ye may be certain, gien it had been in his pooer.

But the deevils cudna gang intil the swine wantin' leave." "Ay, I see," said Cosmo.
"But jist ye speir at yer new maister," Grannie went on, "what he thinks aboot it, for I ance h'ard him speyk richt wise words to my gudeson, James Gracie, anent sic things.

I min' weel 'at he said the only thing 'at made agen the viouw I tiuk--though I spakna o' the partic'lar occasion--was,'at naebody ever h'ard tell o' the ghaist o' an alderman, wha they say's some grit Lon'on man, sair gien to the fillin' o' the seck.".