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I min' weel hoo I leuch and grat, baith at ance, to think I was the mother o' a man-child! and I thought I kenned weel what was i' the hert o' Mary, whan she claspit the blessed ane til her boasom!" "May that same bairnie, born for oor remeid, bring oor bairn til his richt min' afore he's ower auld to repent!" responded the father in a broken voice.
Their dress betokened plainness of nature, though that of the Australian might indicate prosperity. Both would seem uncultured, except in heart. "A speecial occasion!" cried the one addressed as Gavin, "a speecial occasion! I should say it is verra speecial! It's twa an' forty years sin we claspit ane anither's hand man, Andra, friendship's sweet, an' God's guid!
He put them a' on; an' gyne what think you? Puir Sandy ac'ually sat doon an' claspit his hands, an' I heard him sayin', "I'm an awfu' eedeit, a pure provoke to a' 'at belangs me! but if I'm forgi'en this time, I'll try an' do better frae this day forrit. An' I'll gie Pottie Lawson a killin' that he'll no' forget in a hurry. He'll better waurro, if I get a haud o' him.
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