| For what could Gibson be wanting with him if it wasna to arrange about the carting? |
| And whit dae ye th'ink I wad be buyin' them for if it wasna to keep me frae gantin' in the kirk when the sermon's dreich? |
| For what did oor faithers dee if it wasna for the Psalms o' Dauvit? |
| Now wasna that a bonnie and fearful sight to see beneath the light of the Hallowmas moon? |
| A scrawny buttermilk-faced young besom, allus askin' questions an' pokin' tha' nose where it wasna, wanted. |
| It was gey like him, the photygraph, and so everybody kent it wasna the rale Art. |
