But to do that has aye been a favorite trick of cadgers and beggars.

I mind weel a time when I was leaving a hall, and a rare looking bird collared me.

He had a nose that showed only too plainly why he was in trouble, and a most unmistakably English voice.
But he'd taken the trouble to learn some Scots words, though the accent was far ayant him.
"Eh, Harry, man," he said, jovially.

"Here's the twa o' us, Scots far frae hame.

Wull ye no lend me the loan o' a twopence ?" "Aye," I said, and gi'ed it him.