Scotland/Scots > Licht frae the smiddy o' Saunders Dinwuddie

THE UPBRINGING OF COMMON SENSE.
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times of homely and primitive simplicity. It is
quite in keeping, however, with your nobly
generous dealing with your workmen. I admire
your simple and sensible upbringing of your
daughters. If others would follow your example
many of their daughters would be healthier,
heartier, happier than they are.”
“ It would ha’ebeen a sad, a sorrowfu,’ and a
sickening day, Sir—a day o’ dool, if Saunders
Dindwuddie and his spouse Girzie had sent awa’
ane o’ their braw gallant lasses to abuirdin’-school.
We would likely ha’e said to oursel’s—What
ha’e ye brocht the bairns into the warld for ? Is
it no to feed and deed them—to teach them the
way o’ truth, and the richt way o’ living—to train
them to habits o’ order and weeldoin’—to mak’
them usefu’ in their day and generation—guid,
douce, worthy women, that will be a credit, a
comfort, and an honour to their parents ? Are
we unfit for the wark that Providence has set
afore us ? Are we sic silly folk as to gi’e into
the vanity and fickleness ©’fashion, and send awa’
our dochters, to come to us sae dressed oot in a’
kinds o’ outlandish whig-maleeries ? What if we
were to see our stately, rosy lasses come hame to
us hingin’ their sickly heads, like witherin’ yellow
lillies, bothered wi’ nerves and fidgets, and sick
headaches, earaches, heartaches, an’ hunders o’
dwaumish disorders not to be found in Buchan’s
Domestic Medicine nor ony ither gait. How co^.ld
we thole to see our bairns come hame to us, quite
transmogrified, talkin’ like foreigners, smilin’,
simperin’, sichin’, razin’ theirsel’s, and saying
4 Oh la ’—speaking English as if they were clippin’