Bruce, likewise, was rather nonplussed.

He grinned a smile and was silent.
"I hear you have taken James Anderson's daughter into your family now, Mr Bruce." "Ow, ay, mem.

There was nobody to luik efter the bit lassie; sae, though I cud but ill affoord it, wi' my ain sma' faimily comin' up, I was jist in a mainner obleeged to tak' her, Jeames Anderson bein' a cousin o' my ain, ye ken, mem." "Well, I am sure it was very kind of you and Mrs Bruce.

How does the child get on ?" "Middlin', mem, middlin'.

She's jist some ill for takin' up wi' loons." Here he glanced at Alec, with an expression of successful spite.