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Updated: June 7, 2025
It is told as a well-known jest, that a beggar woman, repulsed from door to door as she solicited quarters through a village of Annandale, asked, in her despair, if there were no Christians in the place. To which the hearers, concluding that she inquired for some persons so surnamed, answered, "Na, na, there are nae Christians here; we are a' Johnston and Jardines."
"And I'd be proud to care Miss Annas," said Sam, with a pull at his forelock. "I mind her weel, a bit bonnie lassie. The Laird need nae fear gin she gangs wi' me. But I'd no ha'e said sae mickle for yon puir weak silken chiel wi' the glass in his e'e." "Why, Sam, who do you mean?" said I. "Wha?" said Sam.
"A post!" exclaimed the magistrate; "a whipping-post, I suppose, you mean?" "Na, na, sir, I had nae thoughts o' a whuppin-post. After having been four times doomed to hang by the neck till I was dead, I think I am far beyond being whuppit." "Then, in Heaven's name, what did you expect?"
There's gane the twa bonniest I ever saw, an' I s' lay my heid there's mair poetry in auld man faced Miss Horn nor in a dizzin like them. Ech! but it's some sair to bide. It's sair upon a man to see a bonny wuman 'at has nae poetry, nae inward lichtsome hermony in her. But it's dooms sairer yet to come upo' ane wantin' cowmon sense!
That auld Duke James lost his heart before he lost his head; and the Worcester man was but wersh parritch, neither gude to fry, boil, nor sup cauld." Na, na, gentlemen, as lang as I hae the trust o'butler in this house o'Tillietudlem, I'll tak it upon me to see that nae disloyal or doubtfu' person is the better o' our binns.
"Do ye think this lass would keep her word to ye?" he asked. "I do that," said I. "Well, there's nae telling," said he. "And anyway, that's over and done: he'll be joined to the rest of them lang syne." "How many would ye think there would be of them?" I asked. "That depends," said Alan.
The fine old satirical ballad on the battle of Sheriffmuir does not forget to stigmatise our hero's conduct on this memorable occasion Rob Roy he stood watch On a hill for to catch The booty for aught that I saw, man; For he ne'er advanced From the place where he stanced, Till nae mair was to do there at a', man.
"Spies of Rob!" said Inverashalloch. "We wad serve them right to strap them up till the neist tree." "We are gaun to see after some gear o' our ain, gentlemen," said the Bailie, "that's fa'en into his hands by accident there's nae law agane a man looking after his ain, I hope?" "How did you come by this letter?" said the officer, addressing himself to me.
There was a styme o' licht that streeled in at the open door, frae a candle your lordship set on a table in the lobby; the auld lord would hae nae lichts in the house after the ten hours. Sae I got to the door, and grippit to the candle, and flew off to your lordship's room, and the rest ye ken. 'Thank you, very much, Mrs. Bower, said Logan. 'You quite understand, Merton, don't you?
"Thae duds were a' o' the colour o' moonshine in the water, I'm thinking, Madge The gown wad be a sky-blue scarlet, I'se warrant ye?" "It was nae sic thing," said Madge, whose unretentive memory let out, in the eagerness of contradiction, all that she would have most wished to keep concealed, had her judgment been equal to her inclination.
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