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Updated: May 19, 2025
'He's been here a' day, readin' like a colliginer, said Jessie. 'A buik o' stories, here, answered Robert, carelessly, shy of being supposed so much engrossed with them as he really was. I should never expect much of a young poet who was not rather ashamed of the distinction which yet he chiefly coveted. There is a modesty in all young delight.
They did not half fill it, and would have tumbled about in the great chest, had not the bounty of Mistress Jean complemented its space with provision a cheese, a bag of oatmeal, some oatcakes, and a pound or two of the best butter in the world; for now that he was leaving them, a herd-boy no more, but a colliginer, and going to be a gentleman, it was right to be liberal.
It was an evil moment however in which to carry a high chin to Willie Macwha, who was out of temper with the whole world except Annie Anderson. He strode up to the colliginer. "I said it was a fine day," he repeated. "Well, I said nothing to the contrary," answered Bruce, putting on his English.
"That lick-the-dirt 's no gaun to gar ye marry the colliginer?" "Dinna ye be feared that I'll marry onybody I dinna like, Curly." "Ye dinna like him. I houp to God!" "I canna bide him." "Weel, maybe�-Wha kens? I daurna despair." "Curly, Curly, I maun be honest wi' you, as ye hae been wi' me. Whan ance a body's seen ane, they canna see anither, ye ken.
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