He lives frae hand tae mooth.

When mankind became a bit more prudent, when man wanted to know, any day, where the next day's living was to come frae, then civilization began, and wi' it what many miscall meanness.

Man wad be laying aside some o' the food frae a day o' plenty against the time o' famine.

Why, all literature is fu' o' tales o' such things.

We all heard the yarn o' the grasshopper and the ant at our mither's knee.