April, 1893.
1. slip 3. Davie would be attracted into a similar dialect, as he is later - e.g., with Doig, chapter XIX. This is truly Scottish.
4, to lightly; correct; 'to lightly' is a good regular Scots verb.
15. See Allan Ramsay's works.
15, 16. Ay, and that is one of the pigments with which I am trying to draw the ch