"What's that ye've got in your arm?"

Quo' the fause knicht upon the road:

"Atweel it is my peit."[149]

Quo' the wee boy, and still he stude.

"Wha's aucht[150] they sheep?"

Quo' the fause knicht upon the road:

"They're mine and my mither's."

Quo' the wee boy, and still he stude.

"How monie o' them are mine?"

Quo' the fause knicht upon the road: