Davie is sae tied down wi' Robert's illness, will you go to the sale o' Callendar & Leslie's looms and lease, and buy them for me?
You'll get them on better terms than I will.' And he did get them on excellent terms, Davie; sae your mill is just as you left it--for Bailie Nicol, wha took it at the accountant's valuation, never opened it at all.

And you hae twenty months' rent paid in advance, and you hae something in the bank I expect." "I have L3,600, uncle." "Now, I'll be your partner this time.

I'll put in the business L4,000, but I'll hae it run on a solid foundation, however small that foundation may be.

I'll hae no risks taken that are dishonest risks; I'll hae a broad mark made between enterprise and speculation; and above a', I'll hae the right to examine the books, and see how things are going on, whenever I wish to do sae.

We will start no more looms than our capital will work, and we'll ask credit from no one." "Uncle John, there is not another man in the world so generous and unselfish as you are." "There are plenty as good men in every congregation o' the Lord; if there wasna they would scatter in no time.