" "I hae what ye English ca' an aiccent, I know; but, in my judgment, captain Willoughby, the words may be comprehended without a dictionary.

So, gentlemen, if yer fond o' oor kin o' sportin, ye shall hae such a sicht o' rinnin an' ridin as ye ne'er saw heretofore we your twa een.

But I hae me doots!

Yet they wha fa' in fortune's strife, Their fate we shouldna censure, For still th' important end of life They equally may answer; A man may hae an honest heart, Tho' poortith hourly stare him; A man may tak a neebor's part, Yet hae nae cash to spare him.

The Guards and Highlanders strove in friendly emulation who should be first in the Russian redoubt; but Sir Colin, well ahead of his own men was first in the battery shouting: "We'll hae nane but Highland bonnets here!" and his troops rushed in after him like lions.

"'I'm sure, sir,' said she, 'I dinna encourage them.' "'Weel, Kirsty,' said he, 'if that's the way, if ye hae nae objections, I'll marry ye mysel'.'

"I maun tell ye plainly, frien', that I hae neither faither, nor brither, nor cousin of ony description on this side of the grave.

"I passed another drove," said the squire, with one of your countrymen behind them, they were something less beasts than your drovedoddies most of them; a big man was with themnone of your kilts though, but a decent pair of breeches;d'ye know who he may be?" "Hout aythat might, could, and would pe Hughie MorrisonI didna think he could hae peen sae weel up.

A neighbouring laird having called a few days after, and having referred to the accident, Balnamoon quietly added, "Indeed, I maun hae a lume that'll haud in.

I hae every word o' it as clink as the A B C." The appointed hour arrived.

A weel-stoeket mailen, himsel for the laird, And marriage aff-hand, were his proffers: I never loot on that I kenned it or cared; But thought I might hae waur offers, waur offers, But thought I might hae waur offers.

And when ye sign ye shall hae yer hundred pounds.

Keep your secret frae a' save the Lord; and may He hae mercy on your soul!" With which words, savouring as they did of the objurgations of the black pot to the kettle, Mr. Thomas Dodds left his house, no doubt in the expectation that Mrs. Dodds secunda would move her camp, and betake herself once more to her old place of residence in the Grassmarket.

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."

But to these and sundry other interrogatories, the important hostess gave for answer, "Hoot, I hae nae time to haver the noo."

I would rather hae the lean lintie in the hand, than the fat finch on the wand.

Just previous to her death she sent for her grand-nephew, and said to him, "Wily, I'm deein', and as ye'll hae the charge o' a' I have, mind now that as much whisky is to be used at my funeral as there was at my baptism."

" "Hear till him, hear till him, Janet," said I, as the twa southron chiels gaed thro' the hole, trailing their bagganets alang wi' 'em; "winna the puir tykes hae an unco saft couch o' it, think ye, luckie,

But, first, I must hae a crack with an auld acquaintance here.

Nevertheless we a' hae our duties, so lang as we remain in the flesh, and it is time to be thinking o' carryin' the body into some place

Kirsty was a remarkably weel-faur'd woman, and a number o' the farm lads round about used to come and see her, as weel as trades' chields frae about Coldstream and Birghamno that she gied them ony encouragement, but that it was her misfortune to hae a gude-looking face.

The punishment Sir Jocelyn has already endured is amply sufficient for the offence; and we hae nae fears of its being repeated.

Nae sooner had I made my appearance than Donald let go his grip of Mr. Weft's nose, and the latter, in a great passion, cried out, "William M'Gee, I tak ye to witness what I hae sufferit frae this bluid-thirsty Heelandman!

Ean de eipae ho kakos doulos ekeinos en tae kardia autou; chronizei mou ho kurios, kai arxaetai tuptein tous sundoulous autou esthiae de kai pinae meta ton methuonton, haexei ho kurios tou doulou ekeinou en haemera hae ou prosdoka kai en hora hae ou ginoskei, kai dichotomaesei auton kai to meros autou meta ton hupokriton thaesei.

To the baby she said: "He despises you, my bonny, because you hae no gloves.