And, in the third place (for I'll speak the truth and shame the deil) as I could not thole the gibes and idle tongues of a wheen fools that, for their diversion, would be asking me, How the wife and bairns were; and if I had sent my auldest laddie to the school yet?

a mixo-barbaric form of language

Sudden fortunes, indeed, are sometimes made in such places, by what is called the trade of speculation.

They in pleasing passen all.