and, "Is yon bonny creature her ain bairn?"

This bairn will be a rich man, but it will not be by the devil's books; for he who made the mark does not tempt to evil by promises printed on the bodies of them he loves.

I told him that his bairns would be great folks some day, and that their proudest boast would be that their father had ridden on this errand.

"The father o' the bairns was a bad lotis still, I've no doot, if he's still living.

Our bonnie bairn's there, John, She was baith gude and fair, John;

"The bairn is a' right."

My faither deed, puir man, when I was but a bairn of elevenhe was but thirty-twa himself.