Hoots, na! nae yer grandfather, but yer father's grandfather, laddie--my husband's father.' 'Hoo cam that aboot ?' 'Weel, ye see, he was oot i' the Forty-five; and efter the battle o' Culloden, he had to rin for 't.

He wasna wi' his ain clan at the battle, for his father had broucht him to the Lawlands whan he was a lad; but he played the pipes till a reg'ment raised by the Laird o' Portcloddie.
And for ooks (weeks) he had to hide amo' the rocks.

And they tuik a' his property frae him.

It wasna muckle--a wheen hooses, and a kailyard or twa, wi' a bit fairmy on the tap o' a cauld hill near the sea-shore; but it was eneuch and to spare; and whan they tuik it frae him, he had naething left i' the warl' but his sons.

Yer grandfather was born the verra day o' the battle, and the verra day 'at the news cam, the mother deed.