“Then I will drink,” said Mr. Micawber, “if my friend Copperfield will permit me to take that social liberty, to the days when my friend Copperfield and myself were younger, and fought our way in the world side by side. I may say, of myself and Copperfield, in words we have sung together before now, that

‘We twa’ hae run about the braes

And pu’d the gowans’ fine’

‘We twa’ hae run about the braes And pu’d the gowans’ fine’