"There's no 'muckle hertnin' for a woman when she's left to trauchle day oot day in wi 'seven litlans, an' a thrawn-gabbit footer o 'a man juist comin' in at diet times, rennyin 'aboot first ae thing an' syne anither, threapin 'that his porritch is no' half boiled, simmerin 'an' winterin 'aboot haen to wait a meenit or twa for his denner or his tea."