I will not let you hae the L2,000, that is the business in hand." "What for ?" "If you will hear the truth, that second glass o' whiskey is reason plenty.

I hae taken my ane glass every night for forty years, and I hae ne'er made the ane twa, except New Year's tide." "That is fair nonsense, Uncle John.

There are plenty of men whom you trust for more than L2,000 who can take four glasses for their nightcap always." "That may be; I'm no denying it; but what is lawfu' in some men is sinfu' in others." "I do not see that at all." "Do you mind last summer, when we were up in Argyleshire, how your cousin, Roy Callendar, walked, with ne'er the wink o' an eyelash, on a mantel-shelf hanging over a three-hundred-feet precipice?
Roy had the trained eyesight and the steady nerve which made it lawfu' for him; for you or me it had been suicide--naething less sinfu'.

Three or four glasses o' whiskey are safer for some men than twa for you.

I hae been feeling it my duty to tell you this for some time.