He should ha' been a Scot.
He made me great promises.

I didna believe them a', for it seemed impossible that they could be true.

But I liked the man, and I decided that if the half of what he said was true it would be verra interesting--verra interesting indeed.

Whiles, when you deal w' a man and he tells you more than you think he can do, you come to distrust him altogether.

It was not so that I felt aboot Wull Morris.
It was a great time when I went off to America at last.