Bonnie Jocky, blythe and gay, Kiss'd sweet Jenny making hay: The lassie blush'd, and frowning cried, "No, no, it will not do; I canna, canna, wonna, wonna, manna buckle to.

An' 'e fears naught, ye canna mak' 'im afeard

"YE CANNA GANG TO THE BATHROOM THE NOO.

Are you ready to pay?" "I canna pay.

" "Sometimes," Corp went on painfully, "she canna help being fond o' him, though she thinks she shouldna hae had him.

Weel, I'm no blamin' ye, an' I canna force ye to listen to ma story, no that it wud be worth ma while noo to shame masel' wi' the tellin'.

But she canna gang awa' to Aberdeen when' He stopped short, at a loss.

That's what I canna forgie.

When urged to be patient, her indignant exclamation was"I can bear ony pairtings that may be ca'ed for in God's providence; but I canna stan' pairtin' frae my claes.

Noo, frost requires to be very long continued and very sharp indeed before it can cool the deep sea from the top to the bottom, and until it is so cooled it canna freeze.

They canna understand, yon gentry, why all the fuss is made about Harry Lauder.

I canna feel greatly concernit ower the lad, sin' he's verra gude at carin' for himsel'.

'Weel,' he said slowly, judicially, 'it's maybe a peety to fecht aboot a trifle like that, an' we canna permit kickin', clawin' an' bitin' in this genteel estayblishment; but seein' it's a dull evenin', an' jist for to help for to pass the time, I'll len' ye ma auld boxin' gloves, an' ye can bash awa' till ye're wearit.

But she canna laugh.

Ye canna mak a silk purse o' a sow's lug.

An' 'e fears naught, ye canna mak' 'im afeard

"Nay, but I canna ma' up my mind, when she's just cut out for thee; an' nought shall ma' me believe as God didna make her and send her here

D' yer 'ear that, Fritz?" "I doot he canna unnerstand onything," remarked the Highlander.

He'll be richt sae, often, you see, that you canna hault oot against the laddie at all.

" The kirk is meikle, but ye may say mass in ae end o't; or, as I have received it in another form, "If we canna preach in the kirk, we can sing mass in the quire."

But yet I canna name ye.' Quo' she, an' laughin as she spak, An'taks me by the han's, 'Ye, for my sake, hae gi'en the feck Of a' the Ten Comman's A screed some day. '

An the lad's as guid to them as 'e has been wi' me, they'll unnerstan' as how his company's a thing ye canna balance wi' gold an' siller.

The Englishman whispered to his friend, and asked what was meant by "fah tee, fah tee;" to which his lordship replied"Hout, he canna speak; he means fau too, fau too."

T' mill lease will soon fall in and I canna tak' it on again, unless I get the repairs and improvements done.

I canna thenk as any law'd put a lamb i' the wolf's teeth.