ye are like the tide Ye mak' a feint awa' to gang; But lang awa' ye winna bide, An' better greet than aye think lang.

"Well, madam, it's just this, that his lordship would be very glad to see ye and Mr. Mellot, for he's vary ill indeed, and that's truth; and if he winna tell ye the cause, then I willand it's just a' for love of this play-acting body here, and more's the pity.

"No, Willie, my ain Willie," she cried, "ye maunna, ye winna leave me already: I have neither faither, mother, brother, nor kindred; naebody but you, Willie; only you in the wide world; and I am a stranger here, and ye winna leave your Tibby.

"No, Willie, my ain Willie," she cried, "ye maunna, ye winna leave me already: I have neither faither, mother, brother, nor kindred; naebody but you, Willie; only you in the wide world; and I am a stranger here, and ye winna leave your Tibby.

Say that ye winna, Willie."

While her husband lay upon his deathbed, he called her to his bedside, and, taking her hand within his, he groaned, gazed on her face, and said, "Now, Janet, I'm gaun a lang and a dark journey; but ye winna forget, Janetye winna forgetfor ye ken

While her husband lay upon his deathbed, he called her to his bedside, and, taking her hand within his, he groaned, gazed on her face, and said, "Now, Janet, I'm gaun a lang and a dark journey; but ye winna forget, Janetye winna forgetfor ye ken

Ye winna meet with Robin Oig again either at tryste or fair.

I hae a half notion that they are just wee hairy men that canna, or rather that winna speak, in case they be made to work like ither folk, instead of leading a life of idleness.

"Ay, lass," said her sister, "that's lightly said, but no sae lightly credited frae ane that winna ware a word for me; and if it be a wrang word, ye'll hae time enough to repent o' 't." "

"Say what you like o' me, only promise, for I doubt your proud heart, that you winna' harm yourself?

"The ale!" said the minister; "has any body been drinking and refused to pay?" "Na," said Betty, "they winna drink a drap.

"No, I winna sit down," he said; "I just cried in to tell you Gavinia is to hae me."

" "Oh, Aaron, you pretend" "I was never very fond o' him," Aaron admitted, "but I winna cheapen Jean Myles's bairn, and when they chap at my door and say they would like to see the room Thomas Sandys was born in, I let them see the best room I have.

"It's a shilpit bit thing," he answered, "and I winna cheapen him.

They winna even leave you the piano.

"Because you ken she winna take him.

'Wi' yer King an' yer Country an' yer Christina,' she said, with a sort of laugh, 'there winna be a great deal

I shall say, 'I winna.'

" "Why," said the young man furiously, "you said you would say 'I winna.'

Here's to him wha winna beguile ye.

But I needna speak; Sir Robert winna let me correc' your language.

Novels used to be pronounced novels; envy envy; a cloak was a clock, to the surprise of an English lady, to whom the maid said, on her leaving the house, "Mem, winna ye tak the clock wi' ye?" The names of children's diseases were a remarkable item in the catalogue of Scottish words:

The old lady lost her patience, and at last burst forth: "I winna be back-speired noo, Pally Fullerton."

'Eh, laird, I could never be tempted to do that, for my cuddy winna eat onything but nettles and thristles.'