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• "He chose it," she says, "of a very large print, that I might be able to read it when I was very auld--forty year auld_; but the bairns pulled the leaves out langsyne Footnote 45: [In writing of his little grandson's earliest lessons, Scott recalls these days in a letter to Lockhart March 3, 1826 I rejoice to hear of Johnnie's grand flip towards instruction. —  Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10)
• She's juist seventeen years auld, an' the auld fule sits wi' his airm round her in Eppie's hoose, though they've been mairit this fortnicht The doited fule," said Jess Jeames Geogehan and his bride became the talk of Thrums, and Jess saw them from her window several times. —  A Window in Thrums
• D'ye mean to tell me that Mysie 'ill be dwanged trailin' throo a' eternity wi' a bit bairnie aucht days auld, an' it never gettin' even the lenth o' bein' doakit, lat aleen growin' up to be able to tak' care o'ts sel? —  My Man Sandy
• That I sud call her auld Nelly's brow contracted with something of its old indignation. —  Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes
• I once got a hansel out of a witch's quaigh myself,--auld Marion Mathers, of Dustiefoot, whom they tried to bury in the old kirkyard of Dunscore, but the cummer raise as fast as they laid her down, and naewhere else would she lie but in the bonnie green kirkyard of Kier, among douce and sponsible fowk. —  Stories of Mystery

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