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The giant's dochter said she would help him, and she cried a' the beasts of the field, and a' the fowls o' the air, and in a minute they a' came, and carried awa' everything that was in the stable and made a' clean before the giant came home.
Gang ye awa' to yer bed, and min' yer vow to God and to me. And dinna forget yer prayers, Alec." Neither of them forgot his prayers. Alec slept soundly Mr Cupples not at all. "I think," he said, when Alec appeared in the morning, "I winna tak sic a hardship upo' me anither nicht. Jist open the cat's door and fling the bottle into somebody's yard. I houp it winna cut onybody's feet."
'Eh, sir! she said, 'I didna ken it was you, or I wadna hae come into the room ohn chappit at the door. I'll awa' back to my kitchie. So saying, she turned to leave the room. 'Hoots! Betty, cried Robert, 'dinna be a gowk. Gie 's a grip o yer han'. Betty stood staring and irresolute, overcome at sight of the manly bulk before her.
The young man rises without saying a word, prepares an abundant repast an entire hog, fish, and awa. The two old men admired the activity and skill of the youth, and said to themselves, "At all events, if the foster-son of Kaleihokuu were as vigorous a stripling as this, we should renew our life!"
Ye mind his father had been lickin' 'im, an' he ran awa in a passion, cryin' oot 'at he would never come back? Ay, then, he had a pair o' boots on at the time, an' his father ran after 'im an' took them aff 'im. The boots was the last 'at Davie Mearns made, an' it's fully ane-an-forty years since Davie fell ower the quarry on the day o' the hill-market. That settles't.
But awa! wi' the nonsense o' ae thing worryin' an' fechtin' at anither! no till ye come to beasts an' fowk, an' syne ye hae eneuch o' 't." All the time Fergus had been poking the point of his stick into the ground, a smile of superiority curling his lip. "I hope, ladies, our wits are not quite swept away in this flood of Doric," he said.
For this murder he had been tracked, and was now so closely pursued that he had bribed with all the gold he had a passing fishing-smack to drop him at Stromness during the night. "She'll gae awa now ta some ither place; 'teet will she! An' she's hungry an' unco dry;" all of which Sandy emphasized by a desperate and very evil look.
"You'll be wanting a bite to eat," said Mrs. Birnie. "It's little I have to set for you. The wee bit of meat we had I cooked for him to take with him. It's no much Jinny and I will be wanting while he's awa from us. Ay, and it's no much Jinny and I will get if he doesna come back to us." "Where has he gone?" said Neal.
It matters little about gaein to the kirk ilka Sunday, but it matters a heap aboot aye loein are anither; and whiles he says things aboot the mind o' God, sic that it's a' I can dee to sit still." "Weel, father, I dinna believe that I can lo'e him ony the day; sae, wi' yer leave, I s' be awa to Stanecross afore he comes."
She stood in the middle of the room in her best gown, as if she had been going to church, her Bible, a good-sized octavo, under her arm, with a white handkerchief folded round it, and her umbrella in her hand. "He that believeth shall not make haste," she said, "but he maunna tempt the Lord, aither. Drink that milk, Gibbie, an' pit a bannock i' yer pooch, an' come awa'."
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