They said he was the comic frae Glasga, and they asked me was I no gang wi' them tae the Toon Ha' to hear his concert.
"'No,' I says.

'All the siller in the hoose maun gang for the rent, and it's due on Setterday.

Fat wad the neighbors be sayin' if they saw Kirsty Lamont gang to a concert in a rent week--fashin' aboot like that!'" "But Phem--that's my eldest dochter, ye ken--she wad ha' me gang alang.

She bade me put on my bonnet and my dolman, and said she'd pay for me, so's to leave the siller for the rent.

So I said I'd gang, since they were so keen like, and we set oot jist as John came hame for his tea.