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But it wad be a scunnerfu' thing to tak the len' o' buiks frae ye, an' spier quest'ons at ye 'at I canna mak oot mysel', an' syne gang awa despisin' ye i' my hert for cruelty an' wrang. What was the cratur punished for? Tell me that. Accordin' till yer aunt's ain accoont, he had taen naething, an' had dune naething but guid."
Hob, a hard, unsympathetic woman, once tried the experiment. He went without food all day, but at dusk, as the light began to fail him, he came into the house of his own accord, looking puzzled. "I've had a great gale of prayer upon my speerit," said he. "I canna mind sae muckle's what I had for denner." The creed of God's Remnant was justified in the life of its founder.
"When I went home, Nancy perceiving me to be rather sprung, and my een no as they ought to be, said to me 'Where have you been, Nicholas, until this time o' nicht? "'Touts! said, I, 'what need ye mind? It is a hard maiter that a body canna stir out owre the door but ye maun ask 'where hae ye been? I'm my own maister, I suppose at least after business hours.
Injun women canna make bread wi' th' Scotch lassies an' we ne'er ha' a bit o' oatmeal or oat-cake. 'Tis bread, though. An' how could ye live wi' th' Injuns? 'Tis bad enough t' bide here wi' na' neighbours but th' greasy huskies an' durty Injuns comin' now an' again, but we has some civilized grub t' eat sugar an' molasses an' butter, such as 'tis."
There was the irony in it that so puts up a boy's dander. "Dinna think," said Tommy, hotly, "that I'm fleid at you, though I have no beard at least, I hinna it wi' me." At this unexpected conclusion a smile crossed Mr. McLean's face, but was gone in an instant. "I wish you had laughed," said Tommy, on the watch; "once a body laughs he canna be angry no more," which was pretty good even for Tommy.
'Is there no a possibility of getting you made the provost at Michaelmas, or, at the very least, a bailie, to the end that ye might be chosen delegate, it being an unusual thing for anybody under the degree of a bailie to be chosen thereto?" "I have been so long in the guildry," was his thoughtful reply, "that I fear it canna be very well managed without me."
"Why, he says that it was an old sea king's grave that we discovered one of those viking lads that we read about in the history book." "You don't say so!" exclaimed Rosson. "Yes, and he says that we must take all the siller to him at the school. There's some law about it all, and we canna keep the things. We maun give them up." "Will ye give your share up, Hal?" asked Hercus.
"Ow! naething but a bit sang that I cam' upo' the ither day i' the neuk o' an auld newspaper." "Lat's hear't," said Peter. "Sing't, Rory. Ye're better kent for a guid sang than for settin' socks." "I canna sing 't, for I dinna ken the tune o' 't. I only got a glimp' o' 't, as I tell ye, in an auld news." "Weel, say't, than. Ye're as weel kent for a guid memory, as a guid sang."
Father has the shuriff wi' him, and they are going to search the ranch for the hides " "Good Lord! What hides?" "The hides of my father's cattle. And if you have any, put them away quick, where the shuriff canna find them, Mrs. Lorrigan! It's ill I should go against my father, but you have been so good to me with the music lessons, and " "Don't let the music lessons bother you, Hope.
For at night the sodjers canna see onything, and the Preventives are apt to be lookin' the ither road." "Ye think, then, that we had better try the Burnfoot?" "I think nothing," said Captain Penman, irritably. "I am here to sail my ship according to your orders. But I will take nothing to do with what may happen after you set your foot on shore."
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