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"It is indeed all we have to trust to." "Ye dinna ken ye dinna ken: when the night's darkest, the dawn's nearest. If I had a gude horse, or could ride him when I had him, I reckon there wad be help yet. I trusted to hae gotten a cast wi' the Royal Charlotte, but she's coupit yonder, it's like, at Kittlebrig.
"Aha!" said the king, laughing, for he possessed, as a useful attribute of his situation, a tenacious memory, which recollected every one with whom he was brought into casual contact, "Ye are the self-same traitor who had weelnigh coupit us endlang on the causey of our ain courtyard? but we stuck by our mare. Equam memento rebus in arduis servare.
"Yon was a bonny twirl, and you coupit him weel." "Sall, they've gotten their licks," while Speug modestly disclaimed all credit, and spoke generously of the Pennies, declaring that they had fought well, and that Redhead nearly got the mastery.
"Ow! ye 're there, are ye, mem!" rejoined the other, in a voice that held internal communication with her wounded shins. "Coupit ye the crans like me?" The question, Englished, was, "Did you fall heels over head like me?" but was capable of a metaphorical interpretation as well. "Hold your tongue, I say, woman! Who knows but some of the saints may be at their prayers within hearing?"
Thae are bonny writer words amaist like the language o' huz gardeners and other learned men it's a pity they're sae dear; thae three words were a' that Andrew got for a lang law-plea and four ankers o' as gude brandy as was e'er coupit ower craig Hech, sirs! but law's a dear thing."
Thae are bonny writer words amaist like the language o' huz gardeners and other learned men it's a pity they're sae dear; thae three words were a' that Andrew got for a lang law-plea and four ankers o' as gude brandy as was e'er coupit ower craig Hech, sirs! but law's a dear thing."
Sae ae auld hirpling deevil of a potter behoved just to step in my way and offer me a pig, as he said, just to put my Scotch ointment in, and I gave him a push, as but natural, and the tottering deevil coupit ower amang his ain pigs, and damaged a score of them. And then the reird raise, and hadna these twa gentlemen helped me out of it, murdered I suld hae been, without remeid.
Speug extricated himself and demanded news of the Bailie. Then the three told Speug the story together in bits, one beginning where another left off. "He was that astonished when ye coupit over that he couldna speak, and Jock cried, 'The Bailie has killed Speug." "He was wantin' to lift ye up, but Bauldie gets in afore him and dares him to strike ye a second time."
"It is indeed all we have to trust to." "Ye dinna ken ye dinna ken: when the night's darkest, the dawn's nearest. If I had a gude horse, or could ride him when I had him, I reckon there wad be help yet. I trusted to hae gotten a cast wi' the Royal Charlotte, but she's coupit yonder, it's like, at Kittlebrig.
'How now, wee Andie? he exclaimed, tossing the baby boy up in his arms, and then on the cry of 'Johnnie too! 'Me too! performing the same feat with the other two, the last so boisterously that Mary screamed that 'the bairnie would be coupit over the crag. 'What, looking out over the sea? he cried to his elder sisters. 'That's the wrang side!
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