Ye're richt, laddie, there's naught like a blessed mither to care for yean' ye never had the good

" "Never min', laddie; never min'; ye s'all have a hame, an' a mither too some day, I mak' na doot,some day.

I says to 'im, 'What's the matter wi' ye, laddie?' says I. 'I'm sick,' says 'e, 'an' they've goned an' lef me.'

They had both "kept company," though only by letter, for the most part, for now five years; they had both saved a fair sum of money; and Clara might have married Bowie when she chose, had she not thought it her duty to take care of her mistress; while Bowie considered himself equally indispensable to the welfare of that "puir feckless laddie," his master.

"I'm glad Katherine did not let you turn out to-night, laddie, though I am sorry she had to go herself.

So run along, laddie, and be sure that you come to rouse me if Father wants me," Mrs. Burton said.

At sic a time I canna tell What I to him might say, But as I lo'e the laddie well, I cudna tell him nae.

Dusky locks and lashes had he? Or was he some Northern laddie, Fresh and fair, with cheeks of roses, and with eyes and coat of blue? From New England's fields of daisies, Or from Dixie's bowered mazes, Rode he proudly forth to conflict?

Raniblefs Magazine, i. 202. RAMSAY, Allan, the elder, the poet, dedication to the Countess of Eglintoune, v. 374, n. 3; Gentle Shepherd, ii. 220; Highland Laddie, v. 184, n. 1. RAMSAY, Allan, the son, the portrait-painter, death, iv. 260, n. 1, 366, n. 1; dinners at his house, iii.

And it was there, in Arboath, when I was no more than a laddie, I first sang before an audience.

I had the offer of a guinea, but I had fixed a guinea and a half as my minimum fee, and I would'na tak' less, though, after I'd sent the laddie awa' who offered me the guinea, I could ha' kicked myself.

Next day a wee laddie brocht a great hamper to Jamie's door.

"Who sent ye, laddie?"

And yet it was only by a miracle that it did not bring death to Annie and her bairn and ruin to Jamie Lowden's whole lifea decent laddie that asked nowt but to work for his wife and his wean and be a good and useful citizen.

I lived hard masel', when I was a bit laddie, but I'd no gie up those memories for ought I could ha' had as a rich man's son.

A laddie like the one I ha' in mind would be seein' the auld folk countin' every bawbee because they must.

But John lies sleepin' wi' many another braw laddie, oot there in France.

I was anxious to mak' friends in a new land, and I wadna be saying anything to a reporter laddie that could be misunderstood.

But what should I or any other man gie money to an able bodied laddie that can e'en work for what he needs, the same as you and me?

SEE Meredith, I. H. Laddie, whither away?

"A'body kens about the laddie now," he said.

Mr. Cathro was rubbing his hands together covertly, yet half wishing he could take her aside and whisper: "Be canny; it's grand to hear you, but be canny; he is looking most extraordinar meek, and unless he has cast his skin since he was a laddie, it's not chancey to meddle with him when he is meek.

"Corp," she answered, "you needna be so canny, for the laddie is in the town, and Mr. Sandys has confessed all.

Laddie and man, as weel you ken, you were aye a scunner to me.

Grizel," he would cry sternly, "dinna tell me to think less o' that laddie.