"braw beasts, Leicester every one of them, well-fed and dirt-cheap at the price I gave.
The good wife, Lucky Craik by nam.
Indeed, it would be no lee to call it the best public between Embro\' and Glesca.
They left me on the near side of Colinton, and I went on my way alone.\'Now, if you\'ll be remembering the road, you will mind that at the place called Kirk Newton, just afore the road begins to twine over the Big Muir and almost at the head of the Water o\' Leith, there is a verra fine public.
Indeed, I cared Little for them, and they valued me only for the whisky which I gave them to drink my health in at the parting.
Two or three friends came with me, all like myself for folly, but maybe a Little bit poorer.
So it was with a light heart that I drove them out of the town by the Merchiston Road along by the face of the Pentlands. "braw beasts, Leicester every one of them, well-fed and dirt-cheap at the price I gave
