Daunder

I daunder'd about till my back turned sair, When I met wi' some neighbours, and then did repair To Farries's inn, where some whisky we got, And talked of harvest, and horses, and stots.

I'll tak my staff and daunder: west, For nature age is grand to me;

There's more for him to do than daunder about the hillside with a trout-wand over his shoulder.

He must do one of these two things: in the first case, his ministry may daunder on till there is another strike of half-a-dozen, like the present ; in the latter, it will be blown about his ears, from without.

I have always pitied people whose engagements daundered on year after year without coming to anything.

And so. beguiled by feathered pen, I daunder on.

"Takin' a bit daunder, Laird?" said Davy with the assurance of an old servant.

I tak an occasional daunder roond the lawn, near every five minutes in fact, and throw lumps o sile at oor cat stalkin birds in the flooer beds.