William McIlvanney

Son, it__ easy tae be guid oan a fu_ belly. It__ when a man__ goat two bites an_ wan o_ them he__l share, ye ken whit he__ made o_. Listen. In ony country in the world, who are the only folk that ken whit it__ like tae leeve in that country? The folk at the boattom. The rest can a_ kid themselves oan. They can afford to hiv fancy ideas. We canny, son. We loass the wan idea o_ who we are, we__e deid. We__e wan anither. Tae survive, we__l respect wan anither. When the time comes, we__l a_ move forward thegither, or nut at all.