"Oh, ay, it's a' cauf; when we kill a beast, we just eat up ae side, and doun the tither.

Also, the Berber historian, Ebn-Khal-Doun, who flourished in the fourteenth century, makes all the Berbers descend from one Bar, the son of Mayigh, son of Canaan.

From this time until his death he is up and down on the political ladder; to-day with money and good prospects, to-morrow in poverty and neglect, writing his "Complaint to His Empty Purs," which he humorously calls his "saveour doun in this werlde here."

This feckless hairy oubit cam' hirpling by the linn, A swirl o' wind cam' doun the glen, and blew that oubit in: Oh when he took the water, the saumon fry they rose, And tigg'd him a' to pieces sma', by head and tail and toes.

Wi' sair pressing I was prevailed upon to sit doun again, and we had anither and anither, till I was perfectly insensible.

o' my sight, and carried awa doun wi' the stream.

When he was at the bathing he had been doun aboot Leith, and had seen the ships, and naething wad serve him but he would be a sailor.

Ae afternoon towards the glomin' I was oblegated to tak' a stap doun to the cross, wi' a web under my arm, which I had finished for Mr. Weft, the muslin manufacturer.

And in the gardin at the sonne uprist She walketh up and doun wher as hire list.

And by hire girdle heng a purse of lether, Tasseled with silk and perlëd with latoun,[60] In all this world to seken up and doun Ther n'is no man so wise that coude thenche So gay a popelot or swiche a wenche.

In the Athenaeum, in an article on the tradition respecting Sir Hugh of Lincoln, the Bishop of Dromore's version of the affair is thus given: "The rain rins doun through Mirry-land toune, Sae dois it doune the Pa'; Sae dois the lads of Mirry-land toune.

But 'twas his grandsire was talked o', not him; and 'twould play the hangment wi' me doun here, if 'twas thought there was stories like that passin' in the George and Dragon.'

'Ay,' says farmer Dykes, lookin' very bad; 'forsett-and-backsett, ye'll tak me oot, Tom Ettles, and clap ye doun behint me quick, or I'll claw ho'd o' thee.'

If ye gar me gie ye a look, 'twill gie ye the creepin's while ye live; so git ye doun, Tom;' and with that the dobby lifts its neaf, and Tom saw there was a red light round horse and man, like the glow of a peat fire.

and with the word the gooast draws itsel' doun, all a-creaked, like a man wi' a sudden pain; and Tom Ettles took to his heels more deed than alive.

" "How old are you?" "I doun know, zackly.

the minister's shault's got lowse frae his tether, an' I'm frichtened he's ta'en the road doun to the auld glebe."

"Ay," said the boy, "they gang doun' to the field by the water below the brig."

I remember once his being at Banchory Lodge, and thus apologising to my aunt for going out of the room:"I beg your pardon, Mrs. Forbes, for leaving you, but I maun just gae doun to the garden and say my bit wordies"these "bit wordies" being in fact the portion of the Breviary which he was bound to recite.

When we're gaun up the hill o' fortune may we ne'er meet a freen' coming doun.

The rending o' rocks and the pu'in' doun o' auld houses

The boy replied, "I dinna ken onything about your honour, but if you say as sure's deeth I'll come doun.

There was a secret grievance which embittered his lot; and to his friend he thus opened his heart:"Ae, ae, but oh, I'm sair hadden doun wi' the bubbly jock.

He came to his place, however, rather quickly, on Mr. Shirra quietly remonstrating, "O man, will ye sit doun, and we'll see your new breeks when the kirk's dune."

"Weel, sir," said the husband and father, "if ye sit doun a wee, we'll maybe be able to tell ye, for we're just trying to settle that point.