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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: days, and it had muckle need."
"Odd, Bauldie says very true,--short sheep did make short rents--
my father paid for our steading just threescore punds, and it
stands me in three hundred, plack and bawbee.--And that's very
true--I hae nae time to be standing here clavering--Landlord,
get us our breakfast, and see an' get the yauds fed--I am for
doun to Christy Wilson's, to see if him and me can gree about the
luckpenny I am to gie him for his year-aulds. We had drank sax
mutchkins to the making the bargain at St. Boswell's fair, and
some gate we canna gree upon the particulars preceesely, for as
muckle time as we took about it--I doubt we draw to a plea--But
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