"I'll na hae talk, Robin, of buying and selling on the day! It clinks like the money-changers and sellers of doves." Thomas, his helper, raised his head from a plate of cold mutton.
"Glenfernie was na at kirk.

He's na the kirkkeeper his father was.

Na, na!" "Na," said the farmer.

"Bairns dinna walk nowadays in parents' ways." Willy had a bit of news he would fain get in.

"Nae doot Glenfernie's brave, but he wadna be a sodger, either! I was gaeing alang wi' the yowes, and there was he and Drummielaw riding and gabbing.