He did that so as to be fresh for his sport at nicht.

What a fine releegious man we thocht 'im, too! "Eppie couldna bear the very sicht o' the tray after that, an' she telt me to break it up; but I keepit it, ye see.

The lump i' the middle's the mark, as ye may say, o' the auld man's foot.".