“ I leave it to the judgement of any ten taylors in the town, if thirty pair of men's breeches may not be cut from a little above the easing of Bessy's bum, and this makes her a motherly woman, as stately a fabric as even strade to market or mill. ”

“ They will not speak the mother language of their native country, but must have southren oaths, refined like raw sugar thro' the mills of cursing, finely polished and fairly struck in the profane mint of London, into a perfect form of flunkey-language; even the very wild Arabs from the mountain tops, who have not yet got English to profane his Maker's name, will cry Cot, Cot; hateful it is to hear them swear, who cannot speak, O! ”

“ First, The first thing then, I see and observe is, That a when daft giddy-headed, cock-nosed, juniper-nebbed mothers, bring up a wheen sky-racket dancing daughters, a' bred up to be ladies, without so much as the breadth of their luse of land: it's an admiration to me where the lairds are a' to come frae that's to be coupled to them ”

“ Her mother tell'd ay she wad be a lady, but cou'd never show where her lands lay; but when money is all spent, credit broken, and conduct out of keeping, a when babling bubly bairns crying piece ninny, porrech minny, the witless wanton waster is at her wit's end. Work now or want, and do not say that the world has war'd you ”

“ And what is she after all, yea her poor penny will never be exhausted, it must be laid out in lunacy and laziness, she must have teas and the tuther thing : when pregnancy and the spueing of porich approaches, then she prophecies of her death; as she hatches life, she embraces laziness ”

“ And ony hale hearted wholesome hissie that want to halter a good husband, never take a widow's ae fo for a' the wifely gates in the warld will be in him, so want of a father to teach him manly actions ; neither take a fourlooking sums wila muckle mouth, and a wide guts, who will eat like a horse and soss like a sow suffer none to sup but himself, eat your meat and the bairns' baith ”