s.

[32.] Neebor, neighbor.

[33.] Hafflins, half.

[34.] Nae, no.

[36.] Ben, inside.

[36.] No ill taen, not ill taken; _i.e._ Jenny's parents are pleased to
have the young man come in.

[37.] Cracks, chats.

[38.] Kye, cattle.

[39.] Blate and laithfu', shy and sheepish.

[40.] Wi' a woman's wiles, with a woman's penetration.

[41.] Sae, so.

[42.] The lave, the rest.

[43.] Ruth, pity, tenderness.

[44.] Healsome parritch, chief o' Scotia's food, wholesome porridge,
chief of Scotland's food.

[45.] Soupe, milk.

[46.] Hawkie, cow.

[47.] That 'yont the hallan snugly chows her cood, that beyond the wall
snugly chews her cud. In a cottage of this kind the cow lives under
the same roof with the family.

[48.] Her weel-hained kebbuck, fell, her well-saved cheese, pungent;
_i.e._ her carefully saved, or kept, strong cheese.

[49.] And aft he's pressed, and aft he ca's (pronounced like _cause_)
it guid, And oft he's urged, and oft he calls it good.

[50.] 'T was a towmond auld, sin' lint was i' the bell, it was a
twelve-month old since flax was in flower; _i.e._ when the flax was
last in bloom it was a year old.

[51.] The big ha'-Bible (pronounced _haw_), the big hall-Bible. The
name originated in the fact that large Bibles were first used in the
hall, or principal room, of the noble's castle, where all the household
assembled for worship.

[52.] Ance, once.

[53.] Bonnet, a soft cap made of seamless woolen stuff.

[54.] Lyart haffets, gray side-locks.

[55.] Those strains that once, etc., _i.e._ the _Psalms_, which were
sung in Jerusalem. _Zion_ is really the hill on which the old city of
Jerusalem was built.

[56.] Wales, selects.

[57.] Dundee, Martyrs, Elgin, well-known psalm tunes.

[58.] Beets, fans or feeds.

[59.] Nae unison hae they, no unison have they; _i.e._ they are not in
harmony with.

[60.] Abram, or Abraham. See _Genesis_.

[61.] Moses bade, etc. See _Exodus_ xvii.

[62.] The royal Bard, King David. Probably Burns refers to certain of
the Psalms which express suffering and repentance.

[63.] Job's pathetic plaint. The "plaint" begins with _Job_ iii.

[64.] The Christian volume, i.e. the New Testament.

[65.] How His first followers, etc. See _Acts of the Apostles_.

[66.] The precepts sage. See the _Epistles_.

[67.] He, who lone in Patmos, etc. St. John the Evangelist is said to
have been exiled to the island of Patmos, or Patmo, west of Asia