He's changed, the body, some wy or ither, and there's a kind o' warmth aboot him ye canna get ower.
"Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush"
Ian Maclaren
There's a puckle o' the upland bairns pass oor wy frae schule, and whiles Lachlan 'ill meet them when he's aifter his sheep, and as sure as a'm stannin' here, he 'ill lay aff stories aboot battles and fairies, till the laddies 'ill hardly gae hame.
"Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush"
Ian Maclaren
On occasion he ventured upon bolder assertions: "There's nae mischief in Domsie;" and once I heard him in a white heat of enthusiasm pronounce Dr. Davidson, our parish minister, "A graund man ony wy ye tak him."
"Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush"
Ian Maclaren
