c. 1795, PUBL. 1799) O, WERT THOU IN THE CAULD BLAST (WR.

So mind and see no' to get a cauld dinner for us all, Jimmy!" "Cauld or het," retorted the gentleman addressed, "it's little dinner I'll be gettin' this day!

He's liker to be in a cauld bath.'

Now, I wadna gie tippence for a cauld denner.

Once a bedridden old woman, with whom she had been sitting up, lay watching her instead of sleeping, and finally said: "What makes you sit staring at a cauld fire, and speaking to yourself?"