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So he said, "Na, gudeman, but I wanted to see yoursell." "Ay," said I, "and ye'll be wanting eilding now, or something to pit ower the winter?" "Na, na," quo' he, "it's no that I'm seeking; but ye tak an unco concern in that Captain Brown that was staying wi' you, d'ye no?" "Troth do I, Gabriel," says I; "and what about him, lad?"
So he said, "Na, gudeman, but I wanted to see yoursell." "Ay," said I, "and ye'll be wanting eilding now, or something to pit ower the winter?" "Na, na," quo' he, "it's no that I'm seeking; but ye tak an unco concern in that Captain Brown that was staying wi' you, d'ye no?" "Troth do I, Gabriel," says I; "and what about him, lad?"
So he said, "Na, gudeman, but I wanted to see yoursell." "Ay," said I, "and ye'll be wanting eilding now, or something to pit ower the winter?" "Na, na," quo' he, "it's no that I'm seeking; but ye tak an unco concern in that Captain Brown that was staying wi' you, d'ye no?" "Troth do I, Gabriel," says I; "and what about him, lad?"
"Ay, ay it's easy for your honour, and the like o' you gentle-folks to say sae, that hae stouth and routh, and fire and fending and meat and claith, and sit dry and canny by the fireside but an ye wanted fire, and meat, and dry claes, and were deeing o' cauld, and had a sair heart, whilk is warst ava', wi' just tippence in your pouch, wadna ye be glad to buy a dram wi't, to be eilding and claes, and a supper and heart's ease into the bargain, till the morn's morning?"
"Mony thanks to ye," he said, scoffingly, "for collecting sae muckle winter eilding for us; but if ye step a foot nearer it wi' that lunt, it's be the dearest step ye ever made in your days." "We'll sune see that," said Hobbie, advancing fearlessly with the torch.
So I says to him, rather surprised like, 'What are ye doing up amang the craws here, without your hounds, man? are ye seeking the fox without the dogs? So he said, 'Na, gudeman, but I wanted to see yourself. "'Ay, said I, 'and ye'll be wanting eilding now, or something to pit ower the winter?
"Ay, ay it's easy for your honour, and the like o' you gentle-folks to say sae, that hae stouth and routh, and fire and fending and meat and claith, and sit dry and canny by the fireside but an ye wanted fire, and meat, and dry claes, and were deeing o' cauld, and had a sair heart, whilk is warst ava', wi' just tippence in your pouch, wadna ye be glad to buy a dram wi't, to be eilding and claes, and a supper and heart's ease into the bargain, till the morn's morning?"
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