Weel, when it was fell dune, do you think she gae it awa to some gaen aboot body (vagrant)?
Na, she made it into a richt neat coat to Jamie, wha was a bit laddie at the time.

When he grew out o' it, she made a slipbody o't for hersel.

Ay, I dinna ken a' the different things it became, but the last time I saw it was ben in the room, whaur she'd covered a footstool wi' 't.

Yes, Jess is the cleverest crittur I ever saw.

Leeby's handy, but she's no a patch on her mother." I sometimes repeated these panegyrics to Jess.