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They maun hae been aboot the muir a' that day, that nane but Maggie sud get a haud o' 'im aiven as they maun hae been aboot the field and the flock and the shepherds and the inn-stable a' that gran' nicht!" The same moment entered a neighbour who, having previously heard and misinterpreted the story, had now caught sight of their arrival.

"Whan yer back's to the wa', ye canna fa'. An angry chiel' 'ill ca' up the deil; but an angry wife 'll gar him rin for's life. When I'm angert, I fear no aiven his lordship there!" Lord Lick-my-loof turned and went, and Grizzie set to work like a fury, probably stung by the sense that she had gone too far.

Donal would have had him go down and spend a day, every now and then, with him and the nowt, as in old times so soon the times grow old to the young! but Janet would not hear of it, until the foolish tale of the brownie should have quite blown over. "Eh, but I wuss," she added, as she said so, "I cud win at something aboot his fowk, or aiven whaur he cam frae, or what they ca'd him!

An' there may be w'ys o' comin' nearer till ane anither up yon'er 'at we ken naething aboot doon here. There's that laddie, Gibbie: I canna but think 'at gien he hed the tongue to speyk, or aiven gien he cud mak' ony soon' wi' sense intil't, like singin', say, he wad fin' himsel' nearer till's nor he can i' the noo.

There's the hole noo! My fit made it, and there it'll hae to bide! It's a some fearsome thing, divna ye think, 'at what aiven the fit o' a body dis, bides? What for disna the hole gang awa whan the fit lifts? Luik ye there! Ye see thae twa stanes stan'in up by themsels, and there's the hole atween the twa!