But Heaven's will must be done!" They left the hut accordingly, and gave the alarm in the hamlet, whose matrons instantly assembled to compose the limbs and arrange the body of her who might be considered as the mother of their settlement.

Oldbuck promised his assistance for the funeral.
"Your honour," said Alison Breck, who was next in age to the deceased, "suld send doun something to us for keeping up our hearts at the lykewake, for a' Saunders's gin, puir man, was drucken out at the burial o' Steenie, and we'll no get mony to sit dry-lipped aside the corpse.
Elspeth was unco clever in her young days, as I can mind right weel, but there was aye a word o' her no being that chancy.

Ane suldna speak ill o' the dead--mair by token, o' ane's cummer and neighbour--but there was queer things said about a leddy and a bairn or she left the Craigburnfoot.

And sae, in gude troth, it will be a puir lykewake, unless your honour sends us something to keep us cracking." "You shall have some whisky," answered Oldbuck, "the rather that you have preserved the proper word for that ancient custom of watching the dead.

You observe, Hector, this is genuine Teutonic, from the Gothic Leichnam, a corpse.