What do your folk in the country think about the disturbances that are beginning to spunk out in the colonies ?' 'Excellent, sir, excellent.

When things come to the worst; they will mend; and to the worst they are coming.

But as to that nonsense ploy of mine, if ye insist on hearing the particulars,'-- said the laird, who began to be sensible that the period of telling his story gracefully was gliding fast away.
'Nay,' said the provost, 'it was not for myself, but this young gentlemen.' 'Aweel, what for should I not pleasure the young gentlemen?
I'll just drink to honest folk at hame and abroad, and deil ane else.

And then--but you have heard it before, Mrs.Crosbie ?' 'Not so often as to think it tiresome, I assure ye,' said the lady; and without further preliminaries, the laird addressed Alan Fairford.
'Ye have heard of a year they call the FORTY-FIVE, young gentleman; when the Southrons' heads made their last acquaintance with Scottish claymores?
There was a set of rampauging chields in the country then that they called rebels--I never could find out what for--Some men should have been wi' them that never came, provost--Skye and the Bush aboon Traquair for that, ye ken .-- Weel, the job was settled at last.
Cloured crowns were plenty, and raxed necks came into fashion.

I dinna mind very weel what I was doing, swaggering about the country with dirk and pistol at my belt for five or six months, or thereaway; but I had a weary waking out of a wild dream.