"It's twa bits o' shachlin' podies no wors speakin' aboot.

Then he would tak haud of his tail in his twa hands, and wag it at Donald, and steeking his nieves, he would seem to threaten him wi' a leatherin'.

So I ran and opened the door; and wha think ye I saw but Jean Graham, Mr. Napier's cook, with een like twa candles, and her mouth as wide as if she had been to swallow the biggest sup of porridge that ever crossed ploughman's craig?"

She was clasping the bairn close to her, and the tears were running down her twa cheeks.

'The lyin' siller is to be divided between my twa dauchters.'

Robert Burns wrote and did some things unworthy of a great poet; but when Scotland thinks of him, she quotes the lines which he wrote for Tam Samson's Elegy: "Heav'n rest his saul, whare'er he be! Is th' wish o' mony mae than me: He had twa faults, or maybe three, Yet what remead?

Garskadden's been wi' his Maker these twa hours; I saw him step awa, but I didna like to disturb gude company[40]!"

O' twa ills chuse the least. Set a knave to grip a knave.

I mean a woman who'll tak' a real note of his affairs, and be ready to help him wi' advice and counsel; who'll understand his problems, and demand a share in shaping their twa lives.

At the end of a long minute, Macgregor observed to the kettle: 'I tell't fayther what I done wi' the twa pound.' 'Did ye?' 'Ay.

To which she rejoined, "Ye may hae that profit, but honour ye hae nane;" and then to the point, she added, "But I've been tell't that ae day's wark o' twa or three men wad mount the cannon, and that it may be a' dune for twenty shillings; now there's twa punds to ye."

They had'na e'er ta'en a bit walk by their twa selves in the purple gloaming.

Why, nothin' at all that we could no do our twa selvesso I figured.

Twa shillin' the week.

There was an old, great trout that every fisherman in those parts had been after for twa summers.

Twa wits are better than ane.

I've been oot twa years.

To him 'twas meat, and drink, and physic, To see the friendly vapour Curl round his midnight taper, And the black fume Clothe all the room, In clouds as dark as science metaphysic.

And many a one did he save from getting A fever, or cold or cough: For many a sole did he save from wetting, When, whether in water or snow 'twas setting, His shoeing would keep them off

"The banes o' my bonnie Toop, a prayer of vengeance for that; an' Sandy Scott's twa-yir-auld gimmer, marterdum for that."

But you never dreamed 'twas sin; Your heart was white as a lily's heart, When it drinks the sunshine in.

Every hen wad hae twa broods at the smallest.