But when she says, "Stop yer ticklin'!" I always stop.

For that means the same thing they meant in Rome when they turned their thumbs doon toward a gladiator.

And her judgments aye been gude enow for me.
Sometimes I'll get long letters frae authors wha send me their songs-- but nearly always they're frae those that wad be flattered tae be called authors, puir bodies who've no proper notion of how to write or how to go aboot getting what they've written accepted when they've done it.

I mind a man in Lancashire who sent me songs for years.

The first was an awfu' thing--it had nae meaning at a' that I could see.
But his letter was a delight.
"Dear Harry," he wrote.