But aince they're too old to be seeking joes, they a' set up to be apotecaries.

Why?
What do I ken?
They'll be just the way God made them, I suppose.

But I think a man would be a gomeral that didnae give his attention to the same." And here, the luckie coming back, he turned from me as if with impatience to renew their former conversation.

The lady had branched some while before from Alan's stomach to the case of a goodbrother of her own in Aberlady, whose last sickness and demise she was describing at extraordinary length.

Sometimes it was merely dull, sometimes both dull and awful, for she talked with unction.