The cheese curds were left in the dairy and the wool was left at the wheel, and Mysie forget her household, and Andrew forgot his argument, and the preacher at last said, "You shall tell us, Davie, what the Lord has done for you since you left your father's house." "He has been gude to me, vera gude.

I had a broad Scot's tongue in my head, and I determined to go northward.

I had little siller and I had to walk, and by the time I reached Ecclefechan I had reason enough to be sorry for the step I had taken.

As I was sitting by the fireside o' the little inn there a man came in who said he was going to Carlisle to hire a shepherd.

I did not like the man, but I was tired and had not plack nor bawbee, so I e'en asked him for the place.