They have had mair light than comfort at the Heugh-foot this morning; there's a toom byre and a wide, and a wail and a cry for the bonny bride." "The bride ?" "Ay; Charlie Cheat-the-Woodie, as we ca' him, that's Charlie Foster of Tinning Beck, has promised to keep her in Cumberland till the blast blaw by.

She saw me, and kend me in the splore, for the mask fell frae my face for a blink.

I am thinking it wad concern my safety if she were to come back here, for there's mony o' the Elliots, and they band weel thegither for right or wrang.

Now, what I chiefly come to ask your rede in, is how to make her sure ?" "Wouldst thou murder her, then ?" "Umph! no, no; that I would not do, if I could help it.

But they say they can whiles get folk cannily away to the plantations from some of the outports, and something to boot for them that brings a bonny wench.
They're wanted beyond seas thae female cattle, and they're no that scarce here.