What's Double Dykes?
It's but the name of a farm, and we gave it to Sanders because he was the farmer.

He's dead, and them that's in the house now become Double Dykes in his place." But the Painted Lady only had the house, objected Dite; Nether Drumgley was farming the land, and so he was the real Double Dykes.

True, she might have pretended to her friends that she had the land also.
She had no friends, the smith said, and since she came to Double Dykes from no one could find out where, though they knew her furniture was bought in Tilliedrum, she had never got a letter.

Often, though, as she passed his window she had keeked sideways at the letters, as bairns might look at parlys.

If he made a tinkle with his hammer at such times off she went at once, for she was as easily flichtered as a field of crows, that take wing if you tap your pipe on the loof of your hand.