I gae a sklent wi my ee to Daniel Roy Macpherson, an he was leaned ower the back o the seat, and fan into a kink o laughing.

It was me that gae him it,” said Rob; “it was growing on the roadside, and I plucked it and gae it to him.

Gae hame wi ye afore a leave the bit, and send a haflin (half-grown; a child) for some medicine.

Till 'im I ran, an' he was an auld man, an' maist at the last gasp wi' the weicht o' 't, an' gae me 't to carry.