Ye maukins whiddin thro 'the glade,— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
Ye maukins, whiddin 'thro' the glade, [hares, scudding]— Robert Burns How To Know Him
"Now, Earnscliff, I am aye glad when I come to this very bit -- Ye see the light below, that's in the ha 'window, where grannie, the gash auld carline, is sitting birling at her wheel -- and ye see yon other light that's gaun whiddin' back and forrit through amang the windows? that's my cousin, Grace Armstrong, -- she's twice as clever about the house as my sisters, and sae they say themsells, for they're good-natured lasses as ever trode on heather; but they confess themsells, and sae does grannie, that she has far maist action, and is the best goer about the toun, now that grannie is off the foot hersell.— The Black Dwarf

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