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Updated: May 25, 2025
Janet Caird sat rocking herself to and fro, bewailing the dead, and the living; but yet carefully watching the unusual proceedings and dress of her niece. At length, finding Maggie was not to be provoked into words, she pretended suddenly to observe her kirk clothes "Whatna for hae you that fine merino on this night?
To set them back day by day, like Captain Cuttle's watch, would be to depend wholly upon the other instruments anyway, and this is just what we did, not troubling to adjust them. They were read and recorded merely because that routine had been established. Says Burns: "There was a lad was born in Kyle, But whatna day o' whatna style, I doubt it's hardly worth the while To be sae nice wi' Robin."
Nevertheless, she went gently to it, raised the fallen head to the pillow, and then went and got a blanket to cover the sleeper, muttering, "Poor fellow! There's nae need to let him get a pleurisy, ony gate. Whatna for did ye no tell me, deacon? Then I could hae made him a cup o' warm tea."
Maggie, and the pulpit, and the Tower o' Babel are a' different. If you love Maggie sae blindly as a' that, whatna for did you leave her then? Why didn't you speak to me anent the matter? Let me tell you, that was your plain duty, and you are noo supping the broo you hae brewed for yoursel'."
"There was a man here," says he, "in the gloaming after you would be leaving for your ceilidhing, and he would be giving me a festner," says he, with a toothless grin and his old eyes gleaming; "ay, a noble festner," says he, "from the bottle. He would be wanting speech with you." "Whatna man was he?" said I. "A red-faced man and very clean," says he, "and his face shining like a wean's.
"There are the good words I could be saying," says she in a whisper, "but the minister is no' for them." "Whatna good words?" "Och, chust to be calling on the saints, St Peter and St Paul mora, but Paul wass the lad," and she brisked up a wee at that, and whispered, "There are them I could be naming, Hamish, that St Paul would be curing.
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