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He's no a'thegither sae void o' sense neither; he has a gloaming sight o' what's reasonable that is anes and awa' a glisk and nae mair; but he's crack-brained and cockle-headed about his nipperty-tipperty poetry nonsense He'll glowr at an auld-warld barkit aik-snag as if it were a queezmaddam in full bearing; and a naked craig, wi' a bum jawing ower't, is unto him as a garden garnisht with flowering knots and choice pot-herbs.
"The luntin' pipe an' sneeshin' mill Are handed round wi' richt guid will; The canty auld folks crackin' crouse, The young anes rantin' through the house My heart has been sae fain to see them, That I for joy hae barkit wi' them." It was this ardent power of sympathy that was fatal to so many women, and, through Jean Armour, to himself at last.
It's some yallow-like for siller; an' it's unco black, which is mair like it but that may be wi' dirt. An' dirt I'm thinkin' it maun be, barkit intil the gravin'," he went on, taking a tool and running the point of it along one of the fine lines. "Troth ohn testit, I wadna like to say what it was. But it's an unco weicht! I doobt na, I mair nor doobt it canna be siller."
"The luntin' pipe an' sneeshin' mill, Are handed round wi' richt guid will; The canty auld folks crackin' crouse, The young anes rantin' through the house My heart has been sae fain to see them That I for joy hae barkit wi' them." It was this ardent power of sympathy that was fatal to so many women, and, through Jean Armour, to himself at last.
He's no a'thegither sae void o' sense neither; he has a gloaming sight o' what's reasonable that is anes and awa' a glisk and nae mair; but he's crack-brained and cockle-headed about his nipperty-tipperty poetry nonsense He'll glowr at an auld-warld barkit aik-snag as if it were a queezmaddam in full bearing; and a naked craig, wi' a bum jawing ower't, is unto him as a garden garnisht with flowering knots and choice pot-herbs.
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