The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy
'O aye, atweel I wat I can do that--on the vera day when I gaed hame, frae my service at the Grippy to Mr. George's, the sheep were sheared, and Mr. Watty said they were made sae naked, it was a shame to see them, and took one o' his mother's flannen polonies, to mak a hap to Mall Loup-the-Dike, the auld ewe, for decency.'