By this time he was cross the ford, Whare in the snaw the chapman smoored; And past the birks and meikle stane, Whare drunken Charlie brak's neck-bane; And thro' the whins and by the cairn, Whare hunters fand the murdered bairn; And near the thorn, aboon the well, Whare Mungo's mither hanged hersel.

" "When did you first see him?" "An he's the son o' Robert Burnham, I seen 'im first i' the arms o' 'is mither a matter o' ten year back or so.

An' the Widow Maloney she 'tended 'im like a mither, she did.

"Go on, lad," he said; "when the mither sen's for ye, ye mus' go.

and the bairnies grat [cried], Their mither she under the mools

Love is not a cheat; and did ever bairn love a mither as he loved me? or did ever mither love her bairn as I hae loved him?

Love is not a cheat; and did ever bairn love a mither as he loved me? or did ever mither love her bairn as I hae loved him?

"What would she say," he thought, "if she heard me declare I had robbed my uncle?" At that moment the door opened, and in rushed little Jeanie Sth,her face pale, and her blue eyes lighted with fear, and the thin delicate nostril distended, and hissing with her quick breathings, "Oh mither, there's twa officers on the stair seeking Charlie!"

His mither and I spent many a lang evening dreaming of his future and what micht be coming his way.

His blood was gude on both sides, frae his mither and frae me.

And, oh, I wish ye could ha' seen the bonnie laddie as his mither and I did!

" He'd see the auld folk makin' auld clothes do; his mither patching and mending; his faither getting up when there was just licht to see by in the morn and working aboot the place to mak' it fit to stand the storms and snows and winds o' winter, before he went off to his long day's work.

We all heard the yarn o' the grasshopper and the ant at our mither's knee.

'Twas the way ma mither wad sing the sangs o' Bobby Burns made me sure, when I was a bit laddie, that I must, if God was gude tae me, do what I could to carry on the work o' that great poet.

My boy John, the wean I'd seen grow frae a nursling in his mither's arms, had focht in that battle.

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

His mither and I had looked forward to settling doon when ma work was done, wi' my boy John living nearby.

My boy John was with me, then; he'd come there tae meet his mither and me.

And there's never a faither nor a mither but wad feel the same wayaye, I'm sure o' that.

But here's Nature, the auld mither of all of us.

They've aye said that it was necessity that was the mither of invention, and the war helped again tae prove hoo true a saying that was.

When I speak of a mother's grief for her son that is gone, and her hope that he has not deed in vain, it is as one who has sought to comfort the mither of his ain son.

A mother and child were passing along a street in Glasgow, when this conversation was overheard: "What day is the morn, mither?" "Sabbath, laddie.

" "An' will wi hae tea to breakfast, mither?" "Aye, laddie, gin we're spared.

I asked at the post-office about sindin' money to me mither, and the young man tells me I can get a money order for $10 for 10 cents.