The thocht of takin' charity is abhorrent to him, as to few ither folk on earth.

I've told of hoo, in a village if trouble comes to a hame, there'll be a ready help frae ithers no so muckle better off.

But that's no charity, ye ken! For ilka hoose micht be the next in trouble; it's one for a' and a' for one in a Scottish glen.

Aye, we're a clannish folk, we Scots; we stand together.
I ken fine the way they're a' like to talk o' me.

There's a tale they tell o' me in America, where they're sae fond o' joking me aboot ma Scotch closefistedness.