None was lost wi' her, sae it kicht ha' been worse--though I dinna ken, I dinna ken! "We were a' sorry for the boy.

It was no his fault the wee boat was lost; none blamed him for that.

But, d'ye ken, he came and brocht himsel' and his wife and his bairns, as they came along, to live wi' us.

We were old.

We'd worked hard all our lives.