If you meet a bonnie lassie, Gie her a kiss and let her gae; If you meet a dirty hussey, Fie, gae rub her o'er wi' strae!" From an old Spanish proverb it would seem that the rosemary has long been considered as in some way connected with love: "Who passeth by the rosemarie And careth not to take a spraye, For woman's love no care has he, Nor shall he though he live for aye.

Weavers of muslin were brought to the mill, and women to teach the lassie bairns in our old clachan tambouring instead of hand-spinning.

On this point she sought the advice of the Bonnie Lassie.

No sooner were we all settled in the Bonnie Lassie's studio than the mother proceeded to regale us with a history and forecast of his career, beginning with his precocious infant lispings and terminating with his projected, though wholly indefinite, marriage into the Highest Social Circles.

I saw the Bonnie Lassie's eyelids quiver, but her face was cold and impassive as she turned to the visitor.

Now the way of a snake with a bird is as nothing for fascination compared to the way of the Bonnie Lassie with the doomed person whom she has marked down as a subject.

Then you think she isn't a millionairess?" "Look at her shoes when next you see her," answered the Bonnie Lassie conclusively.

I like to thinkthe Bonnie Lassie says that I am flattering myself therebythat it was the momentary halt caused by my abortive effort to hold the gate, which gave time for a greater than my humble self to intervene.

But as the Bonnie Lassie reasons with her heart instead of her head, we accept her theories with habitual and smiling indulgence rather than respectuntil the facts bear them out.

" "But what became of our Plooie?" besought the Bonnie Lassie.

Little Rachel is as sweet a little bright-eyed lassie as I ever saw, hardly saying anything yet, but expressing a vast deal.

When the dread shadow of sickness is o'er me, I see thee, a lassie all brightness and bloom; Still, still through thy tears strewing blossoms before me, Still watching beside me through silence and gloom.

Gie us the Bonnie Lassie!

There's a lassie in that wee hoose Waiting patiently for me.

His mother's picture is in it, and that of the lassie he was to have married had he come home, after New Year's.

" Bonnie lassie, fairest lassie, Dear art thou to me; Let me think, my bonnie lassie, I am lov'd by thee!

" Bonnie lassie, fairest lassie, Dear art thou to me; Let me think, my bonnie lassie, I am lov'd by thee!

" Bonnie lassie, fairest lassie, Dear art thou to me; Let me think, my bonnie lassie, I am lov'd by thee!

O! beauty it is rare, lassie, And beauty it is thine, Yet my love is no for beauty's sake, 'Tis just I wish thee mine!

Thy voice, soft as the hymn of morn, Or evening's melodie, May still excel, as a' can tell, Then wherefore hear't frae me? Bonnie lassie, fairest lassie, Think na't strange o' me, That when thy beauty's praised by a', Thou get'st nae praise frae me? For wha wad praise what none can praise?

Thy voice, soft as the hymn of morn, Or evening's melodie, May still excel, as a' can tell, Then wherefore hear't frae me? Bonnie lassie, fairest lassie, Think na't strange o' me, That when thy beauty's praised by a', Thou get'st nae praise frae me? For wha wad praise what none can praise?

Yet, lassie, list to me; Gie me thy love, and in return I'll sing thy charms to thee!

"I do not wonder that you think so, my lassie; and so they would be if they ate birds only; but the Shrike earns his right to be thought a good Citizen by devouring mice and many kinds of insects, like beetles, which injure orchards and gardens.

'Aw, I was sweirt to disturb ye wi' yer' frien's, lassie,' replied Miss Tod, who had been advised by postcard of Christina's doings, 'but I couldna bide in thon place anither nicht.'

'Oh, lassie, ha'e ye hurted yersel'?' Christina choked, recovered herself and cried: 'I've sold a blighter a sixpenny notebook for threepence, an' I'll never get over it as long as I live.