Where ye'll never more have care."

"Very nice, Jan. Now you'll better set about composing a verse for me."

"A' richt," she laughed, "we'll mak a line each, and here's the first one:—

"'He was goin' to be marrit, but he dee'd afore his time

"You mak the next line, Annie."

"'And Jim Jackson ate so muckle at the funeral that he got a sair wime.'"

"Nane o' yer lip," growled Jim.

"Come on, Gladys," I said, "third line."

"'He dee'd o' effielinza, and he'll no hae ony mair pain."

"Last line, Ellen!"