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`East, west, hame's best.' Davy, have you been growing again lately?"

Jennet Clouston and mony mair that he has harried out of house and hame. And yet he was ance a fine young fellow, too.

Belyve,* the elder bairns come drapping in, At service out, amang the farmers roun'; Some ca' the pleugh, some herd, some tentie** rin A cannie*** errand to a neebor town: Their eldest hope, their Jenny, woman grown, In youthfu' bloom, love sparkling in her e'e Comes hame, perhaps, to show a braw new gown, Or deposite her sair-won penny-fee,*** To help her parents dear, if they in hardship be.

"One of our guys got injured at the last minute but Adam Hames stepped up to the plate and did a fantastic job.