He will cut throats and burn haciendas all the gay year round if he is not allowed to gang his ain gait.

And then, I knew then, as I know noo, that when ye fail it's aye yer ain fault, one way or anither.

"Ma ain bonnie wee dawtie!"

O Tam, had'st thou but been sae wise As taen thy ain wife Kate's advice!

In the first place, ye tramp about the haill countryside, and think naething of it; but a walk tires me mair than a hunard miles' drive; and then ye're a gentleman, and do your ain pleasure; and you're no so auld as me; and it's for your ain bairn, ye see, Cornel; and then" "He believes in it, Cornel, and you dinna believe in it," the woman said.

I'll bring a nurse round wi' me tomorrow, come afternoon, and I'll hae the papers ready for ye to sign, that give me the richt to adopt him as my ain son.

"How's merrie England?" "Oh, England's all right, Sir," said the Babe, tickling The O'Murphy's upturned tummy"quite all right; but it's jolly to be home again among one's ain folk.

In the first place, ye tramp about the haill countryside, and think naething of it; but a walk tires me mair than a hunard miles' drive; and then ye're a gentleman, and do your ain pleasure; and you're no so auld as me; and it's for your ain bairn, ye see, Cornel; and then" "He believes in it, Cornel, and you dinna believe in it," the woman said.

But I'll gae my ain gait wi' my ain siller.

'I ken my ain business best,' says Dykes. '

tae ha' my ain laddie back, no matter hoo sair he'd been hurt.

On his endeavouring to give the authorship the go-by, the old dame protested, "D'ye think, sir, I dinna ken my ain groats in ither folk's kail?" A conceited packman called at a farm-house in the west of Scotland, in order to dispose of some of his wares.

Rise up and mak' a clean fireside; Put on the muckle pot; Gi'e little Kate her cotton gown, And Jock his Sunday coat: And mak' their shoon as black as slaes, Their hose as white as snaw; It's a' to please my ain gudeman, For he's been long awa'.

The tod ne'er sped better than when he gaed his ain errand.

The guilty yin was o' my ain family.

Bailie Nicol Jarvie quotes the proverb with great bitterness, when he warns his opponent that his time for triumph will come ere long,"Aweel, aweel, sir, you're welcome to a tune on your ain fiddle; but see if I dinna gar ye dance till't afore it's dune.

I am sure She has bought them a' right dear frae thee." Sae now they are on to Liddesdale, E'en as fast as they could them hie; The prisoner is brought to his ain fireside, And there o' his airns they mak' him free.

'Any woman what'd leave a poor lil mite like dis to perish to death ain fitten to be no datter o' mine.'

It's a sair thing to be giving up your ain flesh and blood.

"Ye may be a better preacher than the auld meenister," exclaimed the elder, "but if ye had half the knowledge o' the world, an' o' yer ain flock in particular, ye'd ha' done what he did an' glued the saxpenses to the plate.

As for me, there was so much excitement I had no trouble in getting to the stable unseen, and then back to my ain gate, where I belonged.

Had I done as I planned, had I said I could not carry on because of my ain grief, I should have brought sorrow and trouble to others, and I should have failed to do my duty, since there were those who, in a time of sore trouble and distress, found living easier because I made them laugh and wink back the tears that were too near to dropping.

Dat gemmen ain gwine feed you nothin.

"Weel," she replied, "it's come to a fine pass gin a wife canna kame her ain head;" "Ay, but, Janet," rejoined the minister, "a three-legged stool is a thief-like bane-kame to scart yer ain head wi'!

Yet I am not a losel and idle, mither, nor a thief that steals; I do but hunt God's cattle, upon God's ain hills; For no man buys and sells the deer, and the bonnie fells are free To a belted knight with hawk on hand, and a gangrel loon like me.