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Over by the Damascus gate I one day saw a man feeding his camel on his coat, so these coarse cloth garments are very serviceable indeed. We got back to Jerusalem in time to do a good deal of sight-seeing in the afternoon. The following Tuesday was occupied with a trip on "donkey-back" to Nebi Samwil, Emmaus, Abu Ghosh, and Ain Kairim. Our party was small this time, being composed of Mr.
The darkness was as light to him about the familiar plantation, and he prowled around at night unmolested. During this second meeting he attempted little more than to argue his dusky associates out of their innate fear of spooks and to urge upon them patience in submitting to Perkins's rule a little longer. "I des tells you," he declared, "dey ain' no spooks fer us!
"Christine thou speaks hard words." "Was it to speak easy anes thou brought me here? An' if I said, 'I counsel thee to tak thy ain will i' the matter, wad my counsel mak bad gude, or wrang right? Paul Calder's fleet sails i' twa days; seek a place i' his boats." "Then I shall see next to naught o' Margaret, an' Ragon will see her every day." "If Margaret loves thee, that can do thee nae harm."
Ain' goin' have no wet cat climbin' up 'em! No, suh!" Both boys began to walk toward him argumentatively, while he moved slowly backward, shaking his head and denying them. "I don't keer how much you talk!" he said. "Mammy gave my OLE britches to Verman, an' 'ese here ones on'y britches I got now, an' I'm go' to keep 'em on me not take 'em off an' let ole wet cat splosh all over 'em.
"Conjure quick and I won't holler," she said. "Gawd in heaven!" exclaimed Aunt Ailsey. Her dim old eyes brightened as she gently stroked the child's brow with her palsied fingers. "Dis yer ain' no way ter conjure, honey," she whispered. "You des wait twel de full er de moon, w'en de devil walks de big road." She was wandering again after the fancies of dotage, but Betty threw herself upon her.
I mind aince my ain mither what the devil are you glowering at, Andrew Luke? Do you think I'm greeting? "'You'll sit down, Mr. Whamond, she says next." "No, I winna, I said, angry-like. 'I didna come here to sit." "I could see she thocht I was shy at being in the manse parlor; ay, and I thocht she was pleased at me looking shy.
"That it is, my leddy," he assented. "It's a black day indeed, when the heed o' a clan is struck doon by are o' his ain bleed. It's a great peety that the lad would ha' forgot what he owed to his salt. But I'm thinkin' they'll be hangin' him afore the year's oot." "Oh, Angus," cried Lady Ruth, in horrified tones, "don't talk in that dreadful way.
He paused, however, on the threshold, and went on in a solemn tone of deep contrition, "Firstly, I hae thought my ain thoughts on the Sabbath secondly, I hae gi'en security for an Englishman and, in the third and last place, well-a-day! I hae let an ill-doer escape from the place of imprisonment But there's balm in Gilead, Mr. Osbaldistone Mattie, I can let mysell in see Mr.
Surely it is time to be up and be doing, to cry loudly and to spare not, and to wrestle for the puir lads that are yonder testifying with their ain blude and that of their enemies."
Sae they began to jeer the Laird, that he saw nae sic graith in his ain poor country; and the Laird, scorning to hae his country put down without a word for its credit, swore, like a gude Scotsman, that he had mair candlesticks, and better candlesticks, in his ain castle at hame, than were ever lighted in a hall in Cumberland, an Cumberland be the name o' the country."
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