I daurna look a-field, For aye I trow to see, The form that was a bield To my wee bairns and me.

And Isabella McDonald smiled wistfully, spite of all her pride in her clever bairn.

"And a gude quittance it was, I thought, with a bonny bairn and twenty guineas on my side, and nothing on the other but maybe a father's anger and salt tears, besides the wrath of God against those who forsake their children.

Often she declared that he was an "auld farrant bairn, and could ask a blessing like ony minister."

O never wrong the wee folk The red folk and green, Nor name them on the Fridays, Or at Hallowe'en; The helpless and unwary then And bairns they lure away The fierce folk, the angry folk, the folk that steal and slay.

"Good morrow, master bridegroom, and mistress bride, Many fair lovely bairns to you betide!

And I'll gie ye a hundred pounds to boota hundred pounds that'll be the saving of your wife's life, so that she can be made strong and healthy to bear ye other bairns when you're at work again.

"Jeanniemy ain Jeanniemy bestmy maist dutiful bairn!

Belyve the elder bairns come drapping in, At service out amang the farmers roun'; Some ca' the pleugh, some herd, some tentie rin.