[6.] Trains o" craws, trains of crows.
[7.] Moil, toil.
[8.] Mattocks, implements for digging.
[9.] The morn, to-morrow.
[10.] Hameward, homeward.
[11.] Stacher, totter.
[12.] Flichterin", fluttering.
[13.] Ingle, fireplace.
[14.] Bonilie, cheerfully, attractively.
[15.] Hearth-stane, hearth-stone.
[16.] Does a" his weary kiaugh and care beguile, Does all his weary cark (fret) and care beguile. _A"_ has the sound of _a_ in _all_; p.r.o.nounce _kiaugh_ something like _kee-owch"_, giving the _ch_ a harsh, guttural sound. (In later editions, _carking cares_ was subst.i.tuted for _kiaugh_ and _care_.)
[17.] Belyve the elder bairns come drapping in, Presently the older children come dropping in. (The vowel sound in _bairns_ is like that in _care_.)
[18.] Ca", follow.
[19.] Some tentie rin a cannie errand to a neebor town, some, heedful, run on a quiet errand to a neighboring town.
[20.] E"e, eye.
[21.] Braw, fine.
[22.] Sair-won penny-fee, hard-earned wages.
[23.] Spiers, asks.
[24.] Uncos, wonders, news.
[25.] Sheers, scissors.
[26.] Gars auld claes look amaist as weel"s the new, makes old cloth look almost as well as the new.
[27.] Younkers, young people.
[28.] Eydent, diligent.
[29.] Jauk, trifle.
[30.] Gang, go.
[31.] Wha kens, who knows.
[32.] Neebor, neighbor.
[33.] Hafflins, half.
[34.] Nae, no.
[36.] Ben, inside.
[36.] No ill taen, not ill taken; _i.e._ Jenny"s parents are pleased to have the young man come in.
[37.] Cracks, chats.
[38.] Kye, cattle.
[39.] Blate and laithfu", shy and sheepish.
[40.] Wi" a woman"s wiles, with a woman"s penetration.
[41.] Sae, so.
[42.] The lave, the rest.
[43.] Ruth, pity, tenderness.
[44.] Healsome parritch, chief o" Scotia"s food, wholesome porridge, chief of Scotland"s food.
[45.] Soupe, milk.
[46.] Hawkie, cow.
[47.] That "yont the hallan snugly chows her cood, that beyond the wall snugly chews her cud. In a cottage of this kind the cow lives under the same roof with the family.
[48.] Her weel-hained kebbuck, fell, her well-saved cheese, pungent; _i.e._ her carefully saved, or kept, strong cheese.
[49.] And aft he"s pressed, and aft he ca"s (p.r.o.nounced like _cause_) it guid, And oft he"s urged, and oft he calls it good.
[50.] "T was a towmond auld, sin" lint was i" the bell, it was a twelve-month old since flax was in flower; _i.e._ when the flax was last in bloom it was a year old.
[51.] The big ha"-Bible (p.r.o.nounced _haw_), the big hall-Bible. The name originated in the fact that large Bibles were first used in the hall, or princ.i.p.al room, of the n.o.ble"s castle, where all the household a.s.sembled for worship.
[52.] Ance, once.
[53.] Bonnet, a soft cap made of seamless woolen stuff.
[54.] Lyart haffets, gray side-locks.
[55.] Those strains that once, etc., _i.e._ the _Psalms_, which were sung in Jerusalem. _Zion_ is really the hill on which the old city of Jerusalem was built.