Crossword-Solution: SLEEPIT 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

For, wad ye believe me! the place was as dacent an’ still as ony kirkyard i’ the munelicht! There wasna a thing oot o’ it’s place, nor an air o’ dist, nor the sma’est disorder to be seen! A’ the things luikit as gien they had sattlet themsel’s to sleep as usual, an’ had sleepit till we cam an’ waukit them.

Luik here,' he continued, going to his box, and bringing out Shargar's little heap of coppers, in which two sixpences obscurely shone, 'he brocht a' that hame last nicht, an' syne sleepit upo' the rug i' my room there.

But the upshot o’ ’t a’ was an ill ane; for, efter maybe aboot a month or sae o’ sic friendship as was atween them, there cam a nicht ’at brouchtna the captain hame; for ye maun un’erstan’, wi’ a’ his rouch w’ys, an’ his drinkin’, an’ his cairt-playin’, he was aye hame at nicht, an’ safe intil ’s bed, whaur he sleepit i’ the best chaumer i’ the castle.

But that wasna it, though whan they cam upo’ ’m lyin’ on ’s back i’ the howe yon’er ’at luiks up to my daughter’s bit gerse for her coo’, they thoucht he bude to hae sleepit there a’ nicht.

The general opinyon sattled doon to this, ’at they twa bude till hae fa’en oot at cairts, an’ fouchten it oot, an’ the auld captain, for a’ his skeel an’ exparience, had had the warst o’ ’t, an’ so there they faun’ ’im.--But I reckon, Cosmo, yer father ’ill hae tellt ye a’ aboot the thing, mony’s the time, or noo, an’ I’m jist deivin’ ye wi’ my clavers, an haudin ye ohn sleepit!” “Na, Grannie,” answered Cosmo, “he never tellt me what ye hae tellt me noo.