Tib Mumps will be out wi' the stirrup-dram in a gliffing.

She'll ask ye whether ye gang ower Willie's Brae or through Conscowthart Moss; tell her ony ane ye like, but be sure (speaking low and emphatically) to tak the ane ye dinna tell her.' The farmer laughed and promised, and the gipsy retreated.
'Will you take her advice ?' said Brown, who had been an attentive listener to this conversation.
'That will I no, the randy quean! Na, I had far rather Tib Mumps kenn'd which way I was gaun than her, though Tib's no muckle to lippen to neither, and I would advise ye on no account to stay in the house a' night.' In a moment after Tib, the landlady, appeared with her stirrup-cup, which was taken off.

She then, as Meg had predicted, inquired whether he went the hill or the moss road.

He answered, the latter; and, having bid Brown good-bye, and again told him, 'he depended on seeing him at Charlie's Hope, the morn at latest,' he rode off at a round pace..