trowth ScoE

A man,' she said, "at disna tell ye the trowth aboot himsel 's no likly to tell ye the trowth aboot yoursel!

"It's a some auld-farrand joke," said the cobbler, "but the fun intil a thing doesna weir oot ony mair nor the poetry or the trowth intil't." "Who will say there was no providence in the loss of my shoe-sole!"