The old man thought he had not spoken loud enough, so he shouted out again as loud as he could, “Stop your oxen a little, and tell me why you are ploughing yourself without even a lad to help you, and this, too, on a holy-day!”
— from Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians by Woislav M. Petrovitch

The old man thought he had not spoken loud enough, so he shouted out again as loud as he could, "Stop your oxen a little, and tell me why you are ploughing yourself without even a lad to help you, and this, too, on a holy-day!"
— from A Book of Giants: Tales of Very Tall Men of Myth, Legend, History, and Science. by Henry Wysham Lanier

“Ye was ever a laddie to hae your bit joke.”
— from The Valley of the Giants by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne