If there be spirits moving about on thae hills to-day, they can be nae good anes, ye may see by their look out.
There maun be some truth in thae auld stories aboot a deevil; he hed an awfu' grup o' me the end o' that year.
Thae shoon were never made for Whigs, but for honest King's folk.
I canna part wi' the siller I hae counted sae often ower, to thae blackguards.
And that's what vexes me mair than a' the rest, when I think how I am to fend for ye now in thae brickle times.
