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Frank here; and if I canna mak Rob hear reason, and his wife too, I dinna ken wha can I hae been a kind freend to them afore now, to say naething o' ower-looking him last night, when naming his name wad hae cost him his life I'll be hearing o' this in the council maybe frae Bailie Grahame. and MacVittie, and some o' them. They hae coost up my kindred to Rob to me already set up their nashgabs!
"Of course you know the coast; probably were born hereabouts?" "Of coorse, is it? Whereabouts should Terence O' something, be born, if it's not hereabouts? Is it know the coost, too? Ah, we're ould acquaintances." "And where do you intend to take the ship, Terence?" "It's houlding ground, yer honour asked for?" "Certainly. A bottom on which an anchor will not drag." "Och! is it that?
Could we get past that port, we should then be in the way of picking up half a dozen Irishmen. "Och! botheration 'T is a beautiful coost All made up of rocks and deep bays; Ye may sail up and down, a marvellous host, And admire all its beautiful ways." Irish Song. Little did we, or could we, anticipate all that lay before us.
Frank here; and if I canna mak Rob hear reason, and his wife too, I dinna ken wha can I hae been a kind freend to them afore now, to say naething o' ower-looking him last night, when naming his name wad hae cost him his life I'll be hearing o' this in the council maybe frae Bailie Grahame and MacVittie, and some o' them. They hae coost up my kindred to Rob to me already set up their nashgabs!
"They reeled, they set, they cross'd, they cleekit, Till ilka carlin swat and reekit, And coost her duddies to the wark, And linket at it in her sark." or this
"I was about to say, I will pay you much better if you can show me any lee, hereabouts, which has good holding-ground, where a ship might ride out the gale that is coming." "Shure yer honour! will I not? Shure, there's nivver the lad on the coost, that knows betther what it is yer honour wants, or who'll supply yees, with half the good will."
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