In highland places one sex ages quicker than the other.
'This gentleman would like to bide the night.

I wass telling him that we had a poor small house, but he says he will not be minding it.' She looked at me with the timid politeness that you find only in outland places.
'We can do our best, indeed, sir.

The gentleman can have Colin's bed in the loft, but he will haf to be doing with plain food.

Supper is ready if you will come in now.' I had a scrub with a piece of yellow soap at an adjacent pool in the burn and then entered a kitchen blue with peat-reek.

We had a meal of boiled fish, oatcakes and skim-milk cheese, with cups of strong tea to wash it down.