But, as I say, I've got to keep a quiet sough, for the world is gettin' socialism now like the measles.

It all comes of a defective eddication.' 'And what does a Border radical say about the war ?' I asked.
He took off his spectacles and cocked his shaggy brows at me.

'I'll tell ye, Mr Brand.

All that was bad in all that I've ever wrestled with since I cam to years o' discretion--Tories and lairds and manufacturers and publicans and the Auld Kirk--all that was bad, I say, for there were orra bits of decency, ye'll find in the Germans full measure pressed down and running over.

When the war started, I considered the subject calmly for three days, and then I said: "Andra Amos, ye've found the enemy at last.