"Ilka penny on't; but he'll dress her as dink as a daisy, as ye see; sae she has little reason to complain: where there's ane better aff there's ten waur." "Aweel, gudewife," said Caleb, crestfallen, but not beaten off, "that wasna the way ye guided your gudeman; bt ilka land has its ain lauch.
I maun be ganging.

I just wanted to round in the gudeman's lug, that I heard them say up-bye yonder that Peter Puncheon, that was cooper to the Queen's stores at the Timmer Burse at Leith, is dead; sae I though that maybe a word frae my lord to the Lord Keeper might hae served Gilbert; but since he's frae hame----" "O, but ye maun stay his hame-coming," said the dame.

"I aye telled the gudeman ye meant weel to him; but he taks the tout at every bit lippening word." "Aweel, I'll stay the last minute I can." "And so," said the handsome young spouse of Mr.Girder, "ye think this Miss Ashton is weel-favoured?
Troth, and sae should she, to set up for our young lord, with a face and a hand, and a seat on his horse, that might become a king's son.

D'ye ken that he aye glowers up at my window, Mr.Balderstone, when he chaunces to ride thro' the town?
Sae I hae a right to ken what like he is, as weel as ony body." "I ken that brawly," said Caleb, "for I hae heard his lordship say the cooper's wife had the blackest ee in the barony; and I said, 'Weel may that be, my lord, for it was her mither's afore her, as I ken to my cost.' Eh, Marion?
Ha, ha, ha! Ah! these were merry days!" "Hout awa', auld carle," said the old dame, "to speak sic daffing to young folk.

But, Jean--fie, woman, dinna ye hear the bairn greet?
I'se warrant it's that dreary weid has come ower't again." Up got mother and grandmother, and scoured away, jostling each other as they ran, into some remote corner of the tenement, where the young hero of the evening was deposited.