I'm that when the world's gone along for so many years, and worked out a way of doing things, there must be some good in it.

I'm not sayin' all's richt and perfect in this world -- and, between you and me, would it be muckle fun to live in it if it were?
But there's something reasonable and something good about anything that's grown up to be an institution, even if it needs changing and reforming frae time to time.

Or so I think.
Weel, e'en though I could see, noo, the reason for Munro to be gettin' his big share o' the siller Mac and I made, I was no minded not to ha' another try for it myself.

Next season Mac and I made our plans even more carefully.

We went to most of the same towns where business had been bad before, and this time it was good.