Ou, Jess, we've ta'en the wrang wy wi' Jeames.

I've telt a' my bairns 'at if they meet him they're to praise the wife terrible, an' I'm far mista'en if that doesna mean five shillin's to ilka ane o' them." Jean Whamond got a pound note for saying that Jeames's wife had an uncommon pretty voice, and Davit Lunan had ten shillings for a judicious word about her attractive manners.

Tibbie Birse invited the newly-married couple to tea (one pound).
"They're takkin' to her, they're takkin' to her," Jeames said, gleefully.

"I kent they would come round in time.

Ay, even my mother, 'at was sae mad at first, sits for hours noo aside her, haudin' her hand.