I leugh, an sae did she: then with great haste I clasped my arms about her neck and waist, About her yielding waist, and took a fourth Of sweetest kisses frae her glowing mouth; While hard and fast I held her in my grips, My very saul came louping to my lips; Sair, sair she flet wi' me 'tween ilka smack, But weel I kenned she meant nae as she spak.

I leugh, an sae did she: then with great haste I clasped my arms about her neck and waist, About her yielding waist, and took a fourth Of sweetest kisses frae her glowing mouth; While hard and fast I held her in my grips, My very saul came louping to my lips; Sair, sair she flet wi' me 'tween ilka smack, But weel I kenned she meant nae as she spak.

I'm gaein' hame to see my mither She'll be weel acquant or this, Sair we'll muse at ane anither, 'Tween the auld word an' new kiss.

Long time she sat And moved not, "greetin' sair," the boy did say; "Just like my mither whan my father deed.

His heart it was sair And he lo'ed her mair and mair, For her spirit was noble and free; "Oh lassie dear, relent, Nor let a heart be rent That lives but for its country and thee.

And oh the thought is sair That she'll mine be never mair, I'm alane in the North Countrie.

Sair trouble cam' our gate,

My heart is growing cauld, And will be caulder still, And sair sair in the fauld, Will be the winter's chill;

My heart is growing cauld, And will be caulder still, And sair sair in the fauld, Will be the winter's chill;

If Herbert's rose, in poetic hyperbole, with its "hue angry and brave, bids the rash gazer wipe his eye," certainly such a bed of lobelia as I once saw on the road to "Rollo's Camp" was anything but what the Scotch would call "a sight for sair een."

But it was sair hard to hear the other miners laughing at me.

And it hurt me sair to see Munro gettin' siller it seemed to me Murdoch

Annie was not strong enough to get up and do any of the work, though it hurt her sair to see her man busy about the wee hoose.

It's a sair thing to be giving up your ain flesh and blood.

Jamie was sair beset.

But when he went in she was sair afraid the doctor had told him the bairn could no live, and to reassure her he was obliged to tell just why the doctor had called him oot wi' him.

It was a sair, dour nicht for Jamie and the wife.

Oh, it was the sair nicht for those twa, yell ken withoot ma tellin' ye! Come three o' the clock next afternoon and there was the sound o' wheels ootside the wee hoose.

But it was comfortable in the air, on the bonny blue water of the loch, and we were no sair grieved that the fish should play us false.

We both fell doon, and thocht no mair of keeping still we were too sair hurt not to cry oot a bit and use some strong language as well, I'm fearing.

And then, tae, I know from my ane experience, how it eases a sair heart, sometimes, to tell a stranger what's troublin' ye.

Eh, but I was sair angry, listening to her.

But then misfortune laid sair hands upon us a'.

"Aweel, aweel," said the old lady drily, "that may be the case, but ye maun prescribe some other method for me to get quit o' the sair throat; for ye ken, doctor, I canna adopt that cure.

There was a secret grievance which embittered his lot; and to his friend he thus opened his heart:"Ae, ae, but oh, I'm sair hadden doun wi' the bubbly jock.