Gude kens where there's a house! We're in Balwhidder, too; there should be no want of houses, no, nor friends' houses here.

Do ye gang easier so, Davie ?" "Ay" said I, "I can be doing this way;" and I pressed his arm with my hand.
Again he came near sobbing.

"Davie," said he, "I'm no a right man at all; I have neither sense nor kindness; I could nae remember ye were just a bairn, I couldnae see ye were dying on your feet; Davie, ye'll have to try and forgive me." "O man, let's say no more about it!" said I."We're neither one of us to mend the other--that's the truth! We must just bear and forbear, man Alan.

O, but my stitch is sore! Is there nae house ?" "I'll find a house to ye, David," he said, stoutly.

"We'll follow down the burn, where there's bound to be houses.