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'Ay, said I, 'I feared it came by wreck, and that's by death; yet when my father died, I took his goods without remorse. 'Your father died a clean strae death, as the folk say, said Mary. 'True, I returned; 'and a wreck is like a judgment. What was she called? 'They ca'd her the Christ-Anna, said a voice behind me; and, turning round, I saw my uncle standing in the doorway.
I took a lesson frae Jeck the giant-killer, wi' the Welsh giant was 't Blunderbore they ca'd him? an' poored the maist o' my glaiss doon my breist. It wasna like ink; it wadna du my sark ony ill. 'But what garred ye gang wi' 'im at a'? He wasna fit company for a gentleman. 'A gentleman 's some saft gin he be ony the waur o' the company he gangs in till. There may be rizzons, ye ken.
As we weathered P'int Pelee, the surf nearly swamped us." "What a gran' feed we got frae thae gallant Colonel Talbot!" interjected Sandy McKay. "D'ye mind his bit log bothie perched like a craw's nest atop o' yon cliff. The 'Castle o' Malahide, he ca'd it, no less. How he speered gin there were ony men frae Malahide in the auld kintry wi' us!
"Why, then, woman, did ye not apply to me, if there was only real need? but there was none, ye fause-hearted vassal that ye are!" "Your leddyship never ca'd me sic a word as that before. Ohon! that I suld live to be ca'd sae," she continued, bursting into tears, "and me a born servant o' the house o' Tillietudlem!
"Ye revive an auld custom, my lord," returned his hostess, not without sign of gratification, " clean oot o' fashion noo-a-days, excep' amang the semple. A laird's wife has no richt to be ca'd MY LEDDY,'cep' by auncient custom." "Oh, if you come to that," returned his lordship, "three fourths of the titles in use are merely of courtesy.
To be sure he did gie an awesome glance up at the auld castle and there was some spae-work gaed on I aye heard that; but as for his vanishing, I held the stirrup mysell when he gaed away, and he gied me a round half-crown he was riding on a haick they ca'd Souple Sam it belanged to the George at Dumfries it was a blood-bay beast, very ill o' the spavin I hae seen the beast baith before and since."
Sae the lady was wi' bairn at last, and in the night when she should have been delivered, there comes to the door of the ha' house the Place of Ellangowan as they ca'd an ancient man, strangely habited, and asked for quarters. His head, and his legs, and his arms were bare, although it was winter time o' the year, and he had a gray beard three quarters lang.
"But ye're quite richt; I am some ill at ease." "I thocht as muckle. Has the fit o' Iris ca'd a hole i' the airch o' 't? Eh, man! man! Tak' to the mathemawtics and the anawtomy, and fling the conic sections an' the banes i' the face o' the bonny jaud Iris, I mean, man, no ither, lass or leddy." For Mr Cupples had feared, from the expression of Alec's face, that he had given him offence in return.
Dog stories particularly abounded with them; and not only the dogs of the present but those of the past contributed their quota. 'But that was naething, Sim would begin: 'there was a herd in Manar, they ca'd him Tweedie ye'll mind Tweedie, Can'lish? 'Fine, that! said Candlish.
'Weel, said the Deacon to Mrs. Mac-Candlish, as he accepted her offer of a glass of bitters at the bar, 'the deil's no sae ill as he's ca'd. It's pleasant to see a gentleman pay the regard to the business o' the county that Mr. Glossin does. 'Ay, 'deed is't, Deacon, answered the landlady; 'and yet I wonder our gentry leave their ain wark to the like o' him.
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