Eh! to hear him play the Flooers o' the Forest wad hae garred ye greit.' 'Cud my father play ?' asked Robert.
'Ay, weel eneuch for him.

He could do onything he likit to try, better nor middlin'.

I never saw sic a man.

He played upo' the bagpipes, an' the flute, an' the bugle, an' I kenna what a'; but a'thegither they cam' na within sicht o' his father upo' the auld fiddle.

Lat's hae a luik at her.' He took the instrument in his hands reverently, turned it over and over, and said, 'Ay, ay; it's the same auld mill, an' I wat it grun' (ground) bonny meal .-- That sma' crater noo 'ill be worth a hunner poun', I s' warran',' he added, as he restored it carefully into Robert's hands, to whom it was honey and spice to hear his bonny lady paid her due honours.