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Why, he'll step across to the linen-cupboard here, wi' the hot pipes behind it, an' there's a clean shirt dried an' warmed to his skin. He gets into that the day bein' Sunday, as we'll suppose an' finishes his dressin', danderin' forth an' back from one room to t'other; breakfast gettin' ready downstairs an' no hurry for it all his time his own, clean away to sundown.
"'Tain't early, though," replied the sullen bass voice of Silas Boyd from the darkness; it was lowered, that the others might not hear. "That thar old perverted Philistine of a Persimmon Sneed kep' us danderin' roun' hyar till mighty nigh eight o'clock, I'll bet, a-persistin' an' a-persistin' he knowed the road, when he war plumb lost time we got on that cowpath.
Then, still in the same small voice, now quivering imperceptibly, "Wad ye obleege me, sir, by leetin' the lamp? Or, d'ye think, Wullie, 'twad be soilin' his dainty fingers? They're mair used, I'm told, to danderin' with the bonnie brown hair o' his " "I'll not ha' ye talk o' ma Maggie so," interposed the boy passionately. "His Maggie, mark ye, Wullie his! I thocht 'twad soon get that far."
"Yes, I did meet a man," responded the other readily, glad at having made an impression at last, "a man named McBess or some such name." "McBeth it would be," said old Andrew, "Allister McBeth, Catchach they call him. He's a danderin' bit o' a firebrand." "Were you speakin' to him?" Wee Andra shot out the question and took refuge in a huge gulp of tea.
Parsons an' constables, as I see the matter, be men set apart, an' lonely. So when I reads 'pon the paper that this here war has made us all brothers, it strikes HOME, an' I feel inclined to stop an' pass the time o' day with anybody. I don't care who he may be." "Then why waste time danderin' along the cliffs, here?" Policeman Rat-it-all lowered his voice.
I'm thinkin' 'at if there was a small chairge for admission the Home could be made self-supportin'. Losh! to think 'at if there had been sic an institootion in his time a man micht hae sat on the bit dyke and watched Robbie Burns danderin' roond the " "You would divide the Home into suites of rooms, so that every inmate would have his own apartments?" "Not by no means; na, na.
For he came over the fields at the back across the ten-acre field that Mrs Bosenna carried last week and a very tidy crop, I'm told, though but moderate long in the stalk. . . . Well, there he was comin' across the stubble at a fine pace, too, with his coat 'pon his arm when as I guess he spied me down in the road below and stopped short, danderin' about an' pretendin' to poke up weeds with his stick.
He didna jist order me to hae the thing bought, but it was michty near't. Sez he, 'We hae gotten the consent o' a' the ither elders, Maister Johnstone, an' we know ye jist can't refuse us; we'd like to hae it afore the new meenister comes, the danderin' bit eejit!" "I hope you would not be too hard on him, Andra, Mr. Watson would be meaning no harm " "No harm!
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