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'I'll be gettin' a bit leave afore we gang to the Front, said Macgregor, as though the months of training were already nearing an end. 'If ye dinna get leave sune, I'll be up at the barracks to ha'e a word wi' the general. 'It'll likely be a camp, mither. 'Aweel, camp or barracks, see an' keep yer feet cosy, an' dinna smoke ower mony ceegarettes. She fell to with her needle.
She kent aboot Sandy's fairntickles afore, of coorse, an' Sandy's yallow fizog didna pet her aboot. "Juist hover a blink," says I, "till I see if I come to mysel'." I sat doon in the easy-chair, an' Sandy was in a terriple wey aboot me. He cudna speak a wird, but juist keepit sayin', "O dinna dee, Bawbie, dinna dee; your denner's ready!"
I should go with her, and Janet, I have sometimes the old dread of change upon me, as I used to have long ago." "But, my dear, why should you? All the changes in our lot are in good hands. I dinna need to tell you that, after all these years. And as for the minister, you needna be afraid for him."
"And, Davie, I dinna like Angus Raith, and his mither is here the day lang, and till the late night; and Angus is aye to convoy her hame; and he sits in your chair, and glowers at me, or he says words I canna listen till, and I want nae love from him or any other man.
"Do you not now?" "I won't tell you," answered Grizel, who was never known to lie. "You think I'm a wonder," Tommy persisted, "but you dinna want me to know you think it." Grizel rocked her arms, a quaint way she had when excited, and she blurted out, "How do you know?"
The Herdwicks were coming down and presently broke out from the snow in a compact, struggling flock. Tom shouted and threw a hurdle across the entrance when the dogs had driven the sheep into the fold. "I dinna ken if snow'll tak' off or not, but it's early yet and we must have a rest before we try ghyll," he said. They went into the shaft-house and Kit struck a match.
Is it not written, 'Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites? Numbers, fourth and aughteenth O! sirs! dinna be standing here prattling wi' honest folk, when ye suld be following forth your victory with which Providence has blessed ye."
"They dinna like it, lad he! he! But they'll e'en ha' to thole it. Ye've won it, Wullie won it fair." He elbowed through the press, making for the rope-guarded inclosure in front of the committee tent, round which the people were now packing. In the door of the tent stood the secretary, various stewards, and members of the committee.
At the same time, we cannot help being in sympathy with the words of Burns; they certainly touch a chord in all our hearts: "Then fare ye weel, auld nickey Ben; O wad ye tak' a thought and men' Ye aiblins micht I dinna ken Hae still a stake." As I have said, there are those who teach that Satan will be ultimately extinguished. And they lay down that theory with great positiveness.
No wonder, then, that at the mere mention of Sharp's name Mrs. Black shook her head sorrowfully, Bruce the blacksmith frowned darkly, and Quentin Dick not only frowned but snorted vehemently, and smote the table with such violence that the startled pussie fled from the scene in dismay. "Save us a'! Quentin," said Mrs. Black, "ye'll surely be hanged or shot if ye dinna learn to subdue yer wrath."
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