So I said I'd gang, since they were so keen like, and we set oot jist as John came hame for his tea.

Whiles she'll be sittin' hame, snug as a bug in a rug, waitin' fer callers, her ear cocked for the sound o' the knock on her door.

I could gang hame, and write a letter or twa, and be off in a day or so, singing again in the same auld way.

I was no hungry; I was tae sair at heart, for it lookit as if I maun gang hame and tell the wife my first trip to London had been a failure.

I'd be by hame in Scotland, belike I'd be workin' in the pit still.

"Here's the twa o' us, Scots far frae hame.

I've told of hoo, in a village if trouble comes to a hame, there'll be a ready help frae ithers

"Oh, Harryye brocht the auld hame to ma mind when ye sang o' roaming in the gloaming!

Do ye ken a man that'll e'er be able tae love his hame sae

The hame of a man's faithers may be unknown tae him; belike it's been torn doon, lang before his own bairns are weaned.

In the country hame has a different meaning.

Country folk make a real hame o' a hoose.

Wad I work as I ha' worked were I allowed but such a salary as some committee of folk that knew nothing o' my work, and what it cost me, and meant tae me in time ta'en frae ma wife and ma bairn at hame?

He'd been wounded, and come hame tae his mither to be nursed back to health.

So there was five thousand dollarsa thousand poondsfor ma wounded laddies at hame in Scotland.

Folk there like to gae to a show o' a nicht wi'oot travelling sae far frae hame after dinner.

It's like having a new hame everywhere you go.

For ane thing it reminded me of hame; for another, it gie'd me a chance to get mair exercise than I would ha done otherwise.

It was a tricky business, tae go sae far frae hame.

And it seems that American visitors to Britain, tourists and the like, came to hear me often, and carried hame reportsto say nothing of the scouts the American managers always have abroad.

And then, I was liking my ain hame fine, and the idea of going awa' frae it for many months was trying tae me.

Scots are clansmen, first and last; they make much of any chance to keep the memory and the spirit of Scotland fresh in a strange land, when they are far frae hame.

At hame the competition is fierce, sae there are some puir Scots.

One said I was thinking of settling doon here, and not going hame to Scotland at a' any more!

Some folk took that seriouslyfolk at hame, in the main.