I inquired for him in every direction, an' at last I heard that he was livin in this parish, an' was on the eve o' bein married to a braw lass, wi' a better Tocher than I could bring to him."
"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX"
Alexander Leighton
Ye'll surely lay by the half o't to Tocher your bairns.
"Marriage"
Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
Yet in that February there were still some flutters of song, one of which was, Hey for the Lass wi' a Tocher, written in answer to Thomson's beseeching inquiry if he was never to hear from him again.
"Robert Burns"
Principal Shairp