4 “And in his sawin, a neiffuʼ was mis‐cuisten on the fit‐path, and eaten up wiʼ the birdies.
And he spak mony things to them in parables; and quoʼ he: “Tak tent: The sawer gaed oot to saw.
“Some fell on the staney bits, whaur the yird was jimp; and it brairdit bonnie, for the mool was thin.
“And it cam aboot as he sawed, some was strinklʼt aside the fit‐road; and the burdies cam and devoorʼt it.
And it cam aboot, that whan he was comin nar till Jericho, a blinʼ man was sutten‐doon beside the road, beggin.
“A sawer gaed oot to saw his seed; and as he sawed, some fell aside the fit‐road, and was trampit doon, and the burdies oʼ the air devoorʼt it.