"I'm not just precisely a man that's easily cast down; but I do better with caller air and the lift above my head.

I'm like the auld Black Douglas (wasnae't ?) that likit better to hear the laverock sing than the mouse cheep.

And yon place, ye see, Davie--whilk was a very suitable place to hide in, as I'm free to own--was pit mirk from dawn to gloaming.

There were days (or nights, for how would I tell one from other ?) that seemed to me as long as a long winter." "How did you know the hour to bide your tryst ?" I asked.
"The goodman brought me my meat and a drop brandy, and a candle-dowp to eat it by, about eleeven," said he.

"So, when I had swallowed a bit, it would be time to be getting to the wood.