THE PRINCIPAL REASON WHY MAC STAYED SUCH A SHORT TIME IN LONDON.
CANNY
“Why I dinna prayfair tae smoke, hech? Weel, noo loddie, I’ll joost tell ye. While’s ye’re smoking, ye blaw an’ blaw, an’ whaur is’t? But gin ye tak a guid pench, losh! mon, ye ken et’s there!”
A WEIGHTY REASON
Rab. “They’re tellin’ me that Tam Stirdy’s turned oot a great poet since he gaed tae London.”
Allan. “Poet! Hoo could Tam Stirdy be a poet? Man, he was at the schule wi’ me!”