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And she concluded her description of her genealogical tree by saying "Talk noo the like o' yer mother, hizzy!" "Aweel, mother," said Janet, mildly "that may a' be; but there is nae cause for you fleeing into a tift upon the matter, for nae harm was meant. I only dinna wish Florence to be putting his life in jeopardy for neither end nor purpose.
"Aweel," said Cuddie, after a little consideration, "I see but ae gate for't, and that's a cauld coal to blaw at, mither.
At length, after a draught of home-brewed ale, he began by observing, 'Aweel, aweel, that hen, looking upon the lamentable relics of what had been once a large fowl, 'wasna a bad ane to be bred at a town end, though it's no like our barn-door chuckies at Charlie's Hope; and I am glad to see that this vexing job hasna taen awa your appetite, Captain.
"Aweel, she's nae that auld noo!" he answered with a responsive smile. "Eh, lassie! it maun be a fine thing to hae the wisdom o' age alang wi' the licht hert and the strang banes o' yowth. I'm growin' some auld mysel.
'Aweel, aweel, said Peter Peebles, totally unabashed by the repulse, 'e'en as ye like, a wilful man maun hae his way; but, he added, stooping down and endeavouring to gather the spilled snuff from the polished floor, 'I canna afford to lose my sneeshing for a' that ye are gumple-foisted wi' me. My attention had been keenly awakened, during this extraordinary and unexpected scene.
"Aweel, you must take a trowel and make a hole," said Logan, nipping off some useless buds and shoots from the plants in his neighbourhood as he was speaking "and be sure your hole is deep as it should be; and make the bottom soft with your trowel, or throw in a little earth, well broken, for the roots to rest on" "How shall I know when my hole is deep enough?"
"I was paid good money for that job, and I ken what I ken, and mair what I've found out. Ye'll no' hiv great mind o' Scaurdale's son? No? Aweel, he was a bog-louper, and wild, wild at that, but he fell in wi' some south-country lady a cousin o' his ain, that stopped for years at Scaurdale a young thing that was feart to haud the man, but fond o' him too. I canna mind the name o' her.
'Letters! What aboot the bet? 'Awa' an' chase yersel'! Are ye no gaun to drap a line to yer aunt? 'No dashed likely! She's never sent the postal order I asked her for. If I had got it, I wud ha'e payed what I'm owin' ye, Macgreegor. By heavens, I wud! I'll tak' ma oath I 'Aweel, never heed aboot that, Macgregor said, soothingly. 'Send her a post caird an' let me get peace for three meenutes.
"Aye, me leddy, and with the freer conscience that I ken weel his lairdship the airl would approve. Ye ken, me leddy, there were but twa brithers; Laird Vincent and the Honorable Kenneth Dugald?" "I am aware of that." "Aweel they were in Paris tegither and fell in somewhere with this quean." "This what?" "This player-bodie, me leddy; who afterwards put the glamour over Mr.
"Aweel, me leddy, failing to come over the airl, she began to cast her spells over his lairdship my Laird Vincent. This gave the airl great oneasiness, for ye ken he feared this woman that she should bewitch the ane as she had the ither, e'en to the length of making him marry her.
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