canty

They were a very canty and contented couple, for they had enough to live on, and enough to do.

A late moon was rising over the taps by Balmaclellan, and the thocht that I was out on the heather hills set a canty fire in my breast.

I’m a plain, canty creature; godliness is cheerfulness, says I; give me my fiddle and a dram, and I wouldna hairm a flee.”

The lowliest heart a pride displays, Unkent in our ain early days, Ilk kind and canty thing decays, Wi', How 's a' wi' ye.

We may find a way of being useful to Meggy yet, and until then, as my mother says, 'let's be canty with thinking about it.'