Excerpt from Toorle: A Drama of Farm Life in the Lothians in Five Acts, and Other Pieces

With that idea predominant in my mind, I have striven to write it all truly and interestingly for reading only, albeit I have modelled 'Toorle' strictly after the form and style of the old playwrights.

For dialectic reasons I have likewise given throughout both the 'Drama' and the 'Other Pieces' brief meanings in English of all the probably difficult or obscure Scots words and phrases, still in constant use in country quarters, and therefore surely occurring in the text of a play and poems claiming these localities as their 'Calf-ground' par excellence.

This plan was suggested by Chambers's Edition of Burns, where the difficult Scots is explained on the right-hand margin of each page. This method, and its twin the foot-note one which I have adopted, have, however, to balance the supposed ease they afford the southern reader, the grievous fault of necessitating the printing of ceaseless yet unavoidable repetitions, but I have made trial of it notwithstanding, and need say no more. The book contains, I believe, my best.

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