Aweel, we've to pay, and to go on paying, noo, for a lang time.

Elizabeth was sufficiently wearied before the close of the first discourse; but when, after singing and prayer, the good minister opened the Bible, read a second text, and prepared to give a second sermon, the young girl, being both tired and hungry, lost all patience, and cried out to her grandmother, to the no small amusement of those who were so near as to hear her, "Come awa, granny, and gang hame; this is a lang grace, and nae meat.

When a hoose is sair crowded there they'll put chairs aroond upon the stagemair sae as not to disappoint them as may ha' made a lang journey tae get in than for the siller that wad be lost were they turned awa'.

His mither and I spent many a lang evening dreaming of his future and what micht be coming his way.

The lang sheep hae the short woo, and the short sheep hae the lang thing; and these are just kind o' names we gie them like."

The key fitted, sure enough, and, wi' a strang twist and a lang skreak, the boult went back and he pulled the door open.

The lang sheep hae the short woo, and the short sheep hae the lang thing; and these are just kind o' names we gie them like."

An' she dragged me awa' to a shop, an' I had to buy her a silly-like wee tie that cost me eichteen-pence-ha'penny; an' then she wanted a lang ride on the caur, an' that burst fivepence; an' she nabbed the remainin' bawbee for a keepsake.'

"No," said my friend, and pulled a lang face.

We cannot, however, close this brief notice of the allusions that have been made to sheep by our poets, without quoting a couple of verses from Robert Burns's "Elegy on Poor Mailie," his only "pet yowe:" "Thro' a' the town she troll'd by him; A lang half-mile she could descry him; Wi' kindly bleat, when she did spy him.