ng from.

[320-3] _Pleugh_ means _plow_.

[320-4] _Moil_ is a Scotch word meaning _drudgery_.

[320-5] A mattock is a two-bladed instrument for digging.

[320-6] _Stacher_ is the Scotch form of _stagger_.

[320-7] _Flichtering_ means _fluttering_.

[320-8] _Carking_ is _trying_.

[321-9] _Belyve_ means _soon_.

[321-10] _Ca'_ means _drive_.

[321-11] _Tentie_ means _carefully_.

[321-12] _Cannie_ means here _prudent_, or _trusty_.

[321-13] _Braw_ is _fine, gay_.

[322-14] _Sair-won_ is _hard-earned_.

[322-15] _Spiers_ means enquires.

[322-16] The _uncos_ is the _news_.

[322-17] This line means _Makes old clothes look almost as new ones_.

[322-18] The _younkers_ are the _youngsters_.

[322-19] _Eydent_ is _diligent_.

[322-20] To _jauk_ is to _trifle_.

[323-21] _Hame_ is the Scotch form of our word _home_.

[323-22] _E'e_ is a contraction for _eye_.

[323-23] _Hafflins_ means _partly_.

[323-24] _Nae_ means _no_.

[323-25] _Ben_ means _into the room_.

[323-26] That is, _the visit is not unwelcome_.

[323-27] _Cracks_ is a Scotch word meaning _chats_.

[323-28] _Kye_ are _cattle_.

[323-29] _Blate_ means _modest_.

[323-30] _Laithfu'_ is _bashful_.

[323-31] _Sae_ is the Scotch form of _so_.

[323-32] _The lave_ is _the others_: that is, the neighbors' girls.

[324-33] The _halesome parritch_ is the _wholesome porridge_ of oatmeal.

[324-34] _Sowpe_ here means a little quantity of milk.

[324-35] _Hawkie_ is a _white-faced cow_.

[324-36] That is, _beyond the partition_.

[324-37] _Chows her cood_ means _chews her cud_.

[324-38] _Weel-hain'd_ means _carefully preserved_.

[324-39] _Kebbuck_ is _cheese_.

[324-40] This line, in English, would read _And often he is urged_ (to
take more) _and often he calls it good_.

[324-41] A _towmond_ is a _twelvemonth_, a _year_.

[324-42] _Since flax was in blossom_.

[324-43] The _ha'-Bible_ is the family Bible, which is kept in the
_hall_, or the best room.

[324-44] _Ance_ is the Scotch form of _once_.

[324-45] That is, his hat.

[324-46] _Lyart_ means _gray_.

[324-47] _Haffets_ means _temples_.

[325-48] _Wales_ means _chooses_.

CHARLES AND MARY LAMB

One of the most tragic, and at the same time one of the most heroic, of
true stories is that of Charles and Mary Lamb, the brother and sister
who are known to millions of young people as the writers of _Tales from
Shakespeare_.

Charles Lamb was rathe