It may have been noted that the riming tendency appeared mostly in the start of a speech, and mostly vanished afterwards.
"Laird," she said, "ye're in trouble, for ye're sittin' double, an' castna a leuk upo' yer buik.

Gien ye wad lat a body speyk 'at kens naething,'cep' 'at oot o' the moo' o' babes an' sucklin's--an'troth I'm naither babe nor sucklin' this mony a lang, but I'm a muckle eneuch gowk to be ane o' the Lord's innocents, an' hae him perfec' praise oot o' the moo' o' me!--" She paused a moment, feeling it was time the laird should say something-which immediately he did.
"Say awa', Grizzie," he answered; "I'm hearin' ye.

There's nane has a better richt to say her say i' this hoose; what ither hae ye to say't intil!" "I hae no richt," retorted Grizzie, almost angrily, "but what ye alloo me', laird; and I wadna wuss the Lord to gie me ony mair.

But whan I see ye in tribble--eh, mony's the time I haud my tongue till my hert's that grit it's jist swallin' in blobs an' blawin' like the parritch whan its dune makin', afore tak it frae the fire! for I hae naething to say, an' naither coonsel nor help intil me.

But last nicht, whan I leukit na for't, there cam a thoucht intil my heid, an' seein' it was a stranger, I bad it walcome.