They div say as weel that Auld Nick himsel' was present, an' gied the decision that the Cardinal, wha was to be askit ower frae Stirlin', should dee.

Il-gi-sa-kis-sat from above, The Nin-uit sing An-un-na-ci!

[Footnote 15: "Il-gi-sa-kis-sat," spirits of the hosts.

Beside the royal throne he sits supreme Among the seers, the Sar, his scribe commands To read his dream recorded as it stands In Erech's Gi; who reads it to the seer, Who answers thus: "In this there doth appear A god, whose ardent love will lead to deeds Of hate against thee, Sar; thy present needs Are great, O king!

[Footnote 2: "Gi," literally a written tablet, a record.]

Then I was sent for you, and brought you, and you'll mind how Cowie bade me go along; but I had mair sense, for I listened at the door, and heard what the butler said to ye when he gied ye the bairn; and think ye I didna see ye carry it along the passage as ye left?

Maxwelton braes are bonnie, Where early fa's the dew; And it's there that Annie Laurie Gied me her promise true; Gied me her promise true, Which ne'er forgot will be; And for bonnie Annie Laurie I'd lay me doun and dee.

Maxwelton braes are bonnie, Where early fa's the dew; And it's there that Annie Laurie Gied me her promise true; Gied me her promise true, Which ne'er forgot will be; And for bonnie Annie Laurie I'd lay me doun and dee.

My father argued sair, my mother didna speak, But she lookit in my face till my heart was like to break; Sae they gied him my hand, though my heart was in the sea; And auld Robin Gray was gudeman to me.

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.

So she gied up the controversy.

Margaret gied a shriek, and ane o' them flung himsel' at her feet.

He gied me a battle, I'll admit, but he had nae chance frae the first"

Mac was tryin' to do all he could, but ye canna do muckle wi' a flat bottomed boat when ye're but the ane oar, and he gied up at last.

But, noo that I gied him a closer look, I saw a shifty look in his een that I didna like.

I gied him a cigarthe last I had, too, but I was too relieved to care for that.

So it went on, for the years, till, in the end, we gied him twenty pounds more we'd put awa' for a rainy day that he micht tak' himself' off oot o' our sicht and leave us be in peace.

I'm sorry the wife was no wi' me; had I been able to be sure o' getting the show Tom Tinsley gied me I'd ha' had her doon.

Tae be sure, I made a wiser choice than did Macbeth, but it was no his fault the advice his lady gied him was bad, and he should no be blamed as sair as he is for the way he followed it.

If he gied me the stick I use in "She's Ma Daisy" when I was aboot to sing "I Love a Lassie" I believe I'd have tae ha' the curtain rung doon upon me.

while he cautions the grieve, "Now mind that black park; it never gied me onything, ne'er gie onything to it.

'O, nanae at a'deevil thank it; a gravesteen wad gie guid bree gin ye gied it plenty

And when the laird in his extremity swore a great oath that unless it was given up he would never give another halfpenny, the answer was"Ech, laird, it wad be lang or ye gied me saxty.

That's ma opinion o' the sermon ye gied us to-day."

'A gravesteen wad gie guid bree gin ye gied it plenty o' butter.'