I'll be her nurse, and I'll gang aboot on my stockin' soles as canny as pussy."

" There was a good deal both of the pawky and the canny in the following anecdote, which I have from an honoured lady of the south of Scotland:"There was an old man who always rode a donkey to his work, and tethered him while he worked on the roads, or whatever else it might be.

I'se got 'most a hunnerd bushels o' canny to my house.

The doctor came, not the ponderous old practitioner of the conventional type called for by a knowing man, but one of the better modern type, educated, a man of the world, canny with Scotch blood, but progressive and with the experimental tendency progressive men exhibit.