'
'Whaur saw ye him?'
'At The Boar's Heid.'
'And what richt had ye to gang stan'in' aboot? Ye oucht to ha' gane
in at ance.'
'There was a half-dizzen o' fowk stan'in' aboot, and I bude
(behoved) to speik whan I was spoken till.'
'But ye budena stop an' mak' ae fule mair.'
'Isna that ca'in' names, grannie?'
''Deed, laddie, I doobt ye hae me there. But what said the fallow
Lumley to ye?'
'He cast up to me that my grandfather was naething but a blin'
piper.'
'And what said ye?'
'I daured him to say 'at he didna pipe weel.'
'Weel dune, laddie! And ye micht say 't wi' a gude conscience, for
he wadna hae been piper till 's regiment at the battle o' Culloden
gin he hadna pipit weel. Yon's his kilt hingin' up i' the press i'
the garret. Ye'll hae to grow, Robert, my man, afore ye fill that.'
'And whase was that blue coat wi' the bonny gowd buttons upo' 't?'
asked Robert, who thought he had discovered a new approach to an
impregnable hold, which he would gladly storm if he could.
'Lat the coat sit. What has that to do wi' the kilt? A blue coat
and a tartan kilt gang na weel thegither.'
'Excep' in an auld press whaur naebody sees them. Ye wadna care,
grannie, wad ye, gin I was to cut aff the bonnie buttons?'
'Dinna lay a finger upo' them. Ye wad be gaein' playin' at pitch
and toss or ither sic ploys wi' them. Na, na, lat them sit.'
'I wad only niffer them for bools (exchange them for marbles).
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