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  • I ken it's an awfu 'job for Bawbie tholin' my ongaens; but, at the same time, if it wasna me, the neeper wives an her wudna hae onything to mak 'a molligrant aboot ava.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • There was a gude deal o 'hostin' an 'heid-clawin' at this question, ilka lad lookin 'at his neeper as muckle as to say, "I've naething but half-soverins i' the noo. "

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • "Hoots!" returned the cobbler, "what's onything oors for but to gie the neeper 'at stan's i' need o '' t."

    Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864

  • It wud be a puir wey o 'doin', I'm thinkin ', whaur naebody was wyzer than his neeper, an' whaur ye wud never hae the chance o 'doin' a freend a gude turn. "

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

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