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irritable and easily offended. One day a poor student offended him and got some crusty answer, when the dominie said, “Yere unco short the day, Saunders.” “Od man,” said the other, “Yere no sae lang yeresel’.”

 

Decoration from ‘The Three Advices', an undated chapbook printed in Glasgow