I maun e'en wander again from what I've been tellin' ye.

Not that in this book there's any great plan; it's just as if we were speerin' together.

But one thing puts me in mind o' another.

And it so happened that that gay morn at Montrose when Mac and I tried our hands at the gowf brought me in touch with another and very different experience.
Ye'll mind I've talked a bit already of them that work and those they work for.

I've been a laboring man myself; in those days I was close enough to the pit to mind only too well what it was like to be dependent on another man for all I earned and ate and drank.