| He's a braw hoon an' A'm encouraged by the fine things that the baron said aboot ma poetry. |
| I ken naething aboot him, foreby that he's a moothin' cratur frae the Croon Lans Depairtment, wi' no owre muckle brains. |
| I've been deaved aboot 'im a' the day, but I haena seen the sonsie rascal nor the braw collar the Laird Provost gied 'im. |
| Och, no self-respecting Heelander would be seen oot and aboot withoot a Glengarry bunnet or a kilt. |
| What are ye in sic a fyke for aboot the tenth and the tenth? |
| An' syne, wi' the folk comin' to spier for 'im an' swarmin' ower the kirkyaird, ye'd think a warlock was aboot. |
