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Updated: May 3, 2025
''Twas always summat for his people, as he called 'em, bless him. Reading-rooms, or clubs, or schools. Year in, year out, 'twas his first thought and his last. What else was he there for? he'd say, mony's the time. Ah, well; he's gone where his Master'll have good thought for him, the old woman added quaintly, 'the master he served so faithful.
Mony's the gliff I got mysel' in the great deep; and why the Lord should hae made yon unco water is mair than ever I could win to understand. He made the vales and the pastures, the bonny green yaird, the halesome, canty land And now they shout and sing to Thee, For Thou hast made them glad, as the Psalms say in the metrical version.
It was a braw spring morn, and Tam whustled as he claught in the young geese. Mony's the time I heard him tell of this experience, and aye the swat ran upon the man. It chanced, ye see, that Tam keeked up, and he was awaur of a muckle solan, and the solan pyking at the line. He thocht this by-ordinar and outside the creature's habits.
'Hoo 'ill she manage that, honest woman? She maun hae but little to spare frae the cleedin' o' 'm. 'She's a gude manager, Mistress Faukner. And, ye see, she has the bleachgreen yet. 'She doesna weir cotton sarks, growled MacGregor. 'Mony's the wob o' mine she's bleached and boucht tu! Nobody heeding him yet, he began to feel insulted, and broke in upon the conversation with intent.
'A very old fishwife, said Arthur, 'who used to come her rounds to our door? Was she of kin to you? 'My mither, sir. Mony's the time I hae peepit out on the cuddie's back between the creels at the door of the braw house of Burnside, and mony's the bannock and cookie the gude lady gied me. My minnie'll no be living thae noo, he added, not very tenderly. 'I should fear not, said Arthur.
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