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⟨coals⟩ and courting, lilting and singing like a lavrock in a May morning, "O to be married if this be the way".
The colliers all wondered to see him sae weel busket, with a pair of wally side ⟨auld⟩-fashioned leather breeks of his father's, ⟨and⟩ a lang gravat like a minister, or Bailie Duff at a burial, clean face and hands, and no less than a gun-sleeved ⟨linen⟩ sark on him, which made his ⟨cheeks⟩ to shine like a sherney weight, ⟨and⟩ the colliers swore he was as braw ⟨as⟩ a horse gaun to a cow's dredgey.
But Sawny cam off wi his coals, ⟨whistling⟩, and whipping up the poor ⟨beast⟩, even as outrageous as ony ram at ⟨riding⟩ time; weel might ony body see ⟨there⟩ was a storm in Sawny's nose, ⟨light⟩ whare it like, for no sooner had ⟨he⟩ sell'd his coals, than he left his horse ⟨to⟩ come hame wi' a nibour callan, and ⟨gade⟩ keekin up the Cowgate, and thro' ⟨the⟩ closes, seeking auld Be-go, his good-⟨mither⟩ to be; then in thro' the fish-⟨market⟩, whare he bought a lang herring, and twa baps, a pair of suter's auld ⟨shoon⟩, greased black and made new, to ⟨make⟩ his feet feasible like, as he kend ⟨the⟩ lass would look at them, for his mither tell'd him, the women looked ay to
