'Anither word an' I'll knock the face aff ye!'

"Indeed, mem, ay, sae it is; for ye see the gude lad's winding sheet was ower lang, and I cut aff as muckle as made twa bonny mutches" (caps).

Daft gowk! leave aff that silly whinging way!

I heard an old Scottish Episcopalian thus pithily describe the hasty and irreverent manner of a young Englishman:"He ribbled aff the prayers like a man at the heid

" "Oh, dinna speir, dinna speir mistress," exclaimed the chiel a' in a curfuffle, "ainly for the loe of heav'n, hide me frae the red coats whilk are comin' beliveO God, they are here," he cried, as I entered the shealing, and uttering a piercing skirl, he sprung till the wa', and thrawing aff his cloak, drew his broad claymore, whilk glittered fearsome by the low o' the ingle.