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Updated: June 10, 2025
But maybe.�-What kin' o' chiel' 's Bruce?" "He's terrible greedy." "'Deed micht he." "Is he honest?" "That's hard to answer. But I s' gar him be honest wi' regaird to her, gin I can." "Wad he chait?" "Ay. Na. He wadna chait muckle. I wadna turn my back till him, though, ohn keekit ower my shouther to haud him sicker. He wadna min' doin' ill that gude micht come."
"What is the matter?" said Mr. Menteith, sharply. "You're gone daft, man;" for the big Highlander was trembling like a child. "Whisht! Dinna speak o't. It was my lord's wraith, ye ken. It just keekit in and slippit awa." "Folly! I saw nothing." "But I think I did," said Lord Cairnforth. "Hear him! Ay, he saw't his ain sel. Then it maun be true. Oh my dear lord!"
'As I cam by Crochallan I cannily keekit ben; Rattlin', roarin' Willie Was sitting at yon boord en'; Sitting at yon boord en', And amang guid companie! Rattlin', roarin' Willie, Ye're welcome hame to me! or in the verses on Creech, Burns's publisher, who left Edinburgh for a time in 1789. The 'Willies, by the way, seem to be especially inspiring to the Scottish balladists.
I retorted, in the mere wantonness of power. "Ye hae seen yon auld hauntet kirk, whaur witches an' warlocks Hang an' loupit, an' Auld Nick himsel' screwt his pipes an' gart them skirl, till roof an' rafters a' did dirl! ye hae keekit intil yon eerie auld ruin! an' syne ye daunert awa', an' thocht naethin' o' 't! Be ma saul, Bobbie Birns didna' think naethin' o' 't! Heh!"
Our monarch's hindmost year but ane Was five and twenty days began; 'Twas then a blast o' Januar' win' Blew hansel in on Robin. For Robin was, etc. The gossip keekit in his loof, Quo' she, wha lives will see the proof, This waly boy will be nae coof; I think we'll ca' him Robin. For Robin was, etc.
What are these things to you, if ye have not first heard True Thomas's Rime, which is the beginning and end o' all things? "I have heard no rime" said the man, "save the sacred psalms o' God's Kirk." "Bonny rimes" said the bird. "Once I flew by the hinder end o' the Kirk and I keekit in. A wheen auld wives wi' mutches and a wheen solemn men wi' hoasts! Be sure the Rime is no like yon."
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