I want to show it to him." Mother Binning turned her distaff slowly.

"Eh, then, if ye maun gae, gae!...

We're a' ane! There's the kelpie pool for a'." "We'll stop a bit on the way back," said Alexander.

He spoke in a wheedling, kindly voice, for he and Mother Binning were good friends.
"Do that then," she said.

"I hae a hansel o' coffee by me.