She didn't seem to ken his name, or else she wouldna' tell me.

The auld wife was mortal feared, and was aye speakin' in a foreign langwidge.

I seen at once that what frightened them was Lean and his friends, and I was just starting to speir about them when there came a sound like a man walkin' along the passage.

She was for hidin' me in behind a sofy, but I wasn't going to be trapped like that, so I got out by the other door and down the kitchen stairs and into the coal-hole.

Gosh, it was a near thing!" The boy was on his feet.