Your caputs and heads of colleges.

The good mothers, like Burns’s matron, are plying their needles, making auld claes look amaist as weel’s the new; while the domestics, or help (we prefer the national descriptive term), are wielding, with might and main, their brooms and mops, to make all tidy for the Sabbath.

Traditionally missionaries aim to rescue many ignorant heathen souls.

That was the one point he was willing to go to the wall on.