Auld Reikiel thou'rt the canty hole, A bield for mony a caldrife soul, What snugly at thine ingle loll, Baith warm and couth, While round they gar the bicker roll To weet their mouth.

For naught can cheer the heart sae weel As can a canty Highland reel; It even vivifies the heel To skip and dance: Lifeless is he wha canna feel Its influence.

Maggie's was a piteous case (Ha, ha, the wooing o't!): Duncan could na be her death, Swelling pity smoored his wrath; Now they're crouse and canty baith Ha, ha, the wooing o't!

Cantie, canty, cheerful, jolly.

housed alone. 'Twas well enough when summer came, The long, warm, lightsome summer-day, Then at her door the canty Dame Would sit, as any linnet, gay.

" "Well, you know Foss and Canty?"

At the float he found Tom Foss, Ab Canty, Ella Wright and Susie Danes awaiting the midshipmen and their fair companions.

"Aren't you people going?" asked Ab Canty.

Tom Foss looked at the other half of his party quizzically, then called to Canty.

" "Can you make out Canty and Ella?" demanded Darrin hoarsely.

" "Canty was one of our Gridley High School boys, so I'd expect him to have both the nerve and the grace to go down with a girl, if he couldn't save her as well as himself," muttered Darrin.

"There's Canty, just come up!" "Can you make out Ella's head?" "No." "Look hard.

As Dalzell got back where he had first reached Foss and Susie, he espied the head of Ab Canty some distance away.

For just an instant Dalzell thought Canty had gone below on purpose.

Like a flash Dan dived below, found and clutched at Canty.

Ab Canty was exhausted, out of his head and altogether past reasoning.

Canty gave a gasp and ceased to resist.

"Canty isn't strong enough to tow behind.

" Dan, however, followed orders and took his seat by tiller and sheet as soon as they had towed Canty safely in the boat.

Ab Canty was carried to another room, and Tom Foss, who nearly shook to pieces when lifted from the water, was helped after his friend.

Nor did it take long to bring Ab Canty around.

John Anderson, my Jo, John, We clamb the hill thegither; And monie a canty day, John, We've had wi' ane anither: Now we maun totter down, John, But hand in hand we'll go, And sleep thegither at the foot, John Anderson, my Jo. Burns (New Version).

He's been some time in ill fettle, though he was never frowsy, not he, but always kind and dooce, and canty once, like anither; and he asked me to tak the boat across the lake at once to the Clough o' Cloostedd at t'other side.

May we a' be canty an' cosy, An' ilk hae a wife in his bosy.

A cosy but, and a canty ben, To couthie women and trusty men.