Your leddyship and the steward hae been pleased to propose that my son Cuddie suld work in the barn wi' a new-fangled machine * * Probably something similar to the barn-fanners now used for winnow ing corn, which were not, however, used in their present shape until about 1730.
And, since your leddyship is pleased to speak o' parting wi' us, I am free to tell you a piece o' my mind in another article.  Your leddyship and the steward hae been pleased to propose that my son Cuddie suld work in the barn wi' a new-fangled machine * * Probably something similar to the barn-fanners now used for winnow ing corn, which were not, however, used in their present shape until about 1730.  They were objected to by the more rigid sectaries on their first introduction, upon such reasoning as that of honest Mause in the text.