| A scrawny buttermilk-faced young besom, allus askin' questions an' pokin' tha' nose where it wasna, wanted. |
| If it wasna for him it wad hae been a rale nice, genteel mairrage. |
| For what could Gibson be wanting with him if it wasna to arrange about the carting? |
| It was gey like him, the photygraph, and so everybody kent it wasna the rale Art. |
| Now wasna that a bonnie and fearful sight to see beneath the light of the Hallowmas moon? |
| But he wasna far doon the brae when he turned an' came back. |
