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"Our gude man cam hame at e'en, And hame cam be; And there he saw a saddle horse Where nae horse should be. 'How cam this horse here? How can it be? How cam this horse here Without the leave of me? 'A horse? quo she. 'Ay, a horse, quo he. 'Ye auld fool, ye blind fool, And blinder might ye be, 'T is naething but a milking cow My mamma sent to me. A milch cow? quo he.
All the doors, except that of the smithy, were shut, until one of them blew ajar, when Dite knew at once, from the smell which crossed the road, that Blinder was in the bunk pulling the teeth of his potatoes. May Ann Irons, the blind man's niece, came out at this door to beat the cistern with a bass, and she gave Dite a wag of her head. He was to be married to her if she could get nothing better.
"Well, upon my word, Traverse! that is taking time by the forelock, sure enough. I must be even blinder than I thought, if there are enough signs for you to go that far already. She wears a ring now that has given rise to much gossip, but I cannot get at the truth of the matter.
We all run up in front of the grandstand, and stood lookin' up at Pinto, and him the maddest, scaredest, cross-eyedest horse I ever did see in all my life. His single blinder was swingin' loose under his neck. His eyes was right mean and white, and the Mexican saints only knows which way he was a-lookin'.
"It is enough, for the present, that we trusted to an Indian guide to take us by a nearer, though blinder path, and that we are deceived in his knowledge. In plain words, we know not where we are."
He calls me scabbed, because I will not call him skade. He is blind that eats his marrow, but far blinder that lets him. Have God and have All. Honesty is na pride. He that fishes afore the net, long e're he fish get. He tint never a Cow, that grat for a needle. He that hes no geir to tine, hes shins to pine. Hea, will gar a deaf man hear.
He returned mechanically the salutations of those he passed upon the street and sunk into his office chair with his hat upon his head, a dazed sense of shock and humiliation still upon him. He had been blind as a bat, he told himself, blinder even, for a bat has an instinct which warns it of danger.
They'd a' gone alone, them two. I kep' the third place. Harvey and Tommy scuffled, in a breath, and Harvey, he thrust Tommy back, and we was off. "God knows I never expected we'd come back again. You heern the wind. You can calk'late what it was out thar' with the rain a drivin', and the salt foam blowed into our eyes. I calk'late we never fetched a harder pull, no, nor a blinder one.
And as he tore off the blinder he put his head down close to Doris, and whispered: "It was mean of you to hide behind grandfather every time, and he didn't play fair a bit." But having a peep at the red shoes as they went dancing round was fair enough! Hollis Leverett sang in the choir. They had come to this innovation, though they drew the line at instrumental music.
"Hadn't given it a thought," said Fisher with a fatuous look at Mrs. Bagley. She mooned back at him. For a moment they were lost in one another, giving proof to the idea that blinder than he who will not see is the fellow who has his eye on a woman. "Charles Maxwell does not exist except in the minds of his happy readers," said James.
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