Tibbie said the carpet cowed for grandeur ?" "Oh, I dinna deny it's a guid carpet; but if it's been turned once it's been turned half a dozen times, so it's far frae new.

Ay, an' forby, it was rale threadbare aneath the table, so ye may be sure they've been cuttin't an' puttin' the worn pairt whaur it would be least seen." "They say 'at there's twa grand gas brackets i' the parlour, an' a wonderfu' gasoliery i' the dinin'-room ?" "We wasna i' the dinin'-room, so I ken naething aboot the gasoliery; but I'll tell ye what the gas brackets is.

I recognized them immeditly.

Ye mind the auld gasoliery i' the dinin'-room had twa lichts?
Ay, then, the parlour brackets is made oot o' the auld gasoliery." "Weel, Leeby, as sure as ye're standin' there, that passed through my head as sune as Tibbie mentioned them!" "There's nae doot about it.

Ay, I was in ane o' the bedrooms, too!" "It would be grand ?" "I wouldna say 'at it was partikler grand, but there was a great mask (quantity) o' things in't, an' near everything was covered wi' cretonne.