He was an extraordinary affable man and very spirity, running about to waste no time in walking, and gave me a shilling, saying to me to be a truthful boy and tell my father.

He did not give James anything, him being an orphan, but clapped his head and said he was a fine boy.
The Captain was to vote for the Bill if he got in, the which he did.
It was the Captain was to give the ale and porter in the square like a true gentleman.

My father gave a kind of laugh when I let him see my shilling, and said he would keep care of it for me; and sorry I was I let him get it, me never seeing the face of it again to this day.

Me and James was much annoyed with the women, especially Kitty Davie, always pushing in when there was tossing, and tearing the very ha'pence out of our hands: us not caring so much about the money, but humiliated to see women mixing up in politics.

By the time the topmost barrel was on the bonfire there was a great smell of whisky in the quarry, it being a confined place.