292 Gleanings from the Vernacular. 



Gant: He ganted an' he ganted. Er gahnt. 



Grue: It made me grue tae think o't. Sie gedachte mit Grauen. 



Leelang: We enjoyed oorsel's the leelang day. "We lap and 



dance 't the leelang day." Durch die er den lieben langen Tag 



iiber zu winden und zu schmiegen hatte. 

 Lown: It's a lown nicht. In der dammerhaften lauen Nacht. 

 Rice: They gathered rice for the fire. Reis. 

 Sair: I'm sair afeird. I was sair putten aboot. Ich fiirchte 



sehr du lasst dich zu tief ein. 

 Sheil: What are ye sheilin' at? Sie schielte hastig nach 



Marianne hin. 

 Smiddy: Schmiede. 

 Ticht-handed : She was a trig, ticht-handed body. Er ist tiichtig 



mid klug. 

 Weer [cf . , veer] : Weer the sheep into that field. " To wear the 



tod frae the flock on the fell " (" Brownie of Blednoch "). 



Warf Marianne, leise abwehrend, dazwischen. 

 He micht ha'e could dae that! Er hatte das thun konnen. 



A few of the interjections met with among the peasantry are 

 added, without present comment : — 



Gosh. Loven enty. Losh. My greaty. Och anee. Atweel. 

 Dod. Nabbat. Hech sirs. By Hecky or By Heck. My sang. 

 My word. By the long. By the long Harry. 



James Lindsay, Provost of Lincluden. By John Lindsay, 

 M.A., M.D., Glasgow. 



James Lindsay, Provost of Lincluden, was a son of the laird 

 of Covington, a considerable barony in the parish of the same 

 name in the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire. He makes his first 

 appearance in record history in the year 1432, as a litigant at the 

 Papal Court, where he was engaged in defending his possession 

 of the rectory of Arbuthnot against the claim of another priest. 

 For five years the case dragged on, and in the end was settled by 

 compromise, Lindsay, while permitted to retain the rectory, 

 was required to surrender to the rival claimant a prebend held 



