I cheated the leddy for your clavers, but I wasna gaun to cheat my joe.

But she may marry whae she likes now, for I'm clean dung ower.

This is a waur dirdum than we got frae Mr Gudyill when ye garr'd me refuse to eat the plum-porridge on Yule-eve, as if it were ony matter to God or man whether a pleughman had suppit on minched pies or sour sowens." "O, whisht, my bairn, whisht," replied Mause; "thou kensna about thae things--It was forbidden meat, things dedicated to set days and holidays, which are inhibited to the use of protestant Christians." "And now," continued her son, "ye hae brought the leddy hersell on our hands!--An I could but hae gotten some decent claes in, I wad hae spanged out o' bed, and tauld her I wad ride where she liked, night or day, an she wad but leave us the free house and the yaird, that grew the best early kale in the haill country, and the cow's grass." "O wow! my winsome bairn, Cuddie," continued the old dame, "murmur not at the dispensation; never grudge suffering in the gude cause." "But what ken I if the cause is gude or no, mither," rejoined Cuddie, "for a' ye bleeze out sae muckle doctrine about it?
It's clean beyond my comprehension a'thegither.

I see nae sae muckle difference atween the twa ways o't as a' the folk pretend.

It's very true the curates read aye the same words ower again; and if they be right words, what for no?
A gude tale's no the waur o' being twice tauld, I trow; and a body has aye the better chance to understand it.