"There's about all there is of life in this little book, and it's made my rhyming-ware cheap. Do you think," she says, coming over to kiss me before I sent her off to bed, "do you think I can ever meet wi' Mr. Burns?"
"If you want it, you shall," I said; "unless the man himself objects. We'll have him up to Stair; and now forget him and get some rest, Little Flower."
She went away and left me, and I turned to sleep with that great couplet going over and over in my head like the clatter of horses' hoofs:
"The heart ay's the part ay
That makes us right or wrong."
[ 3]After Jamie Henderlin became famous for his violin playing it was noised abroad that I alone was his patron. But the truth of the matter is that Sandy shared with me the expense of his German studies.
[ 4]Poems by Nancy Stair, Pailey Edition, pages 44, 67.