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Updated: June 19, 2025
In the old days I used to look in the wee book I kept, and I'd see a week's engagement marked, a long time ahead, and be thankfu' that that week, at least, there'd be siller coming in. And noo well, the noo it's when I look in the book and see, maybe a year ahead, a blank week, when I've no singing the do, that I'm pleased. "Eh, Tom," I'll say. "Here's a bit o' luck!
It rained in torrents elsewhere, with us it only "threatened tae be weet" some provision had to be made for the deluge. Strangers, in the pride of health, described themselves as "fit for anything," but Hillocks, who died at ninety-two, and never had an hour's illness, did not venture, in his prime, beyond "Gaein' aboot, a'm thankfu' to say, gaein' aboot."
See, yonder seems to be the headquarters of the camp. We will report our arrival, and then see to breakfast." "Ay I'll be thankfu' for a bite o' somethin', for I'm fair famished; an' there's a proverb, I think, that says it's ill fechtin' on an emp'y stammack. It seems to me there's less order an' mair noise yonder than befits a camp o' serious men specially on a Sabbath mornin'."
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