We'd gie'n him a' we had.

Wad ye no think he'd have gone to work and sought to pay us back?
But no.

Not he.

He sat him doon, and was content to live upon us--faither and me, old and worn out though he knew we were.
"And that wasna the worst.

He asked us for siller a' the time, and he beat Lizzie, and was cruel to the wee bairns when we wouldna or couldna find it for him.