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The Bailie put on his spectacles to examine the mechanism, and when he had done, returned it with a smile and a sigh, observing "Ah! Rob, had ither folk's purses been as weel guarded, I doubt if your sporran wad hae been as weel filled as it kythes to be by the weight."
This bolt came never out of your bag. There is little sap in dry peis hools. Tarrowing bairns were never fat. The mother of mischief is na mair nor a midgewing. The higher up, the greater fall. There are many fair words in the marriage making, but few in the tochergood paying. True love kythes in time of need. There is nothing mair precious nor time. The mair cost, the mair honour.
The Bailie put on his spectacles to examine the mechanism, and when he had done, returned it with a smile and a sigh, observing "Ah! Rob, had ither folk's purses been as weel guarded, I doubt if your sporran wad hae been as weel filled as it kythes to be by the weight."
But I will bear my cross with the comfort, that whatever showed like goodness in me or mine, was but like the light that shines frae creeping insects, on the brae-side, in a dark night it kythes bright to the ee, because all is dark around it; but when the morn comes on the mountains, it is, but a puir crawling kail-worm after a'. And sae it shows, wi' ony rag of human righteousness, or formal law-work, that we may pit round us to cover our shame."
But I will bear my cross with the comfort, that whatever showed like goodness in me or mine, was but like the light that shines frae creeping insects, on the brae-side, in a dark night it kythes bright to the ee, because all is dark around it; but when the morn comes on the mountains, it is, but a puir crawling kail-worm after a'. And sae it shows, wi' ony rag of human righteousness, or formal law-work, that we may pit round us to cover our shame."
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