If he thought he should ha' more, he said nothing, only waited.

It was no so long before he saved enough to buy a partnership wi' his gaffer.
"I'm happy the noo, Harry," he said.

"I've found out that what I make depends on me, not on anyone else.

The wife's there waiting for me when I gang hame at nicht.

There's the ane bairn, and another coming, God bless him." Weel, Andy'd learned nothing he hadn't been told a million times by his parents and his friends.