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The lights from the street lamps flickered on the up-turned, anxious faces. Some of the children had begun to weep. Women offered loud suggestions. There were surmises that Bobby had been run over by a cart in the street, and angry conjectures that he had been stolen. Then Ailie wailed: "Oh, Maister Traill, the bittie dog's deid!" "Havers, lassie! I'm ashamed o' ye for a fulish bairn.
I shouldn't 'a' stoppit ye. It was verra fulish in me. But ye see," turning to the driver apologetically, "the lad's been so long wi' me it's hard to part wi' 'im. An' it cam' ower me so sudden like, that mayhap he'd not be a-comin' back, that I that I wull, wull! it's a' richt, ye need na min' me go on; go on, lad, an' rich blessin's go wi' ye!" and Bachelor Billy turned and walked rapidly away.
"Tammy," Ailie said, when her shyness had worn off, "it's like the grand tales ye mak' up i' yer heid." "Preserve me! Does the wee mannie mak' up stories?" "It's juist fulish things, aboot haein' mair to eat, an' a sonsie doggie to play wi', an' twa gude legs to tak' me aboot. I think 'em oot at nicht when I canna sleep." "Eh, laddie, do ye noo?" Mr.
"That was fulish in me," he said, "to weaken like that; but I'm no' used to that white damp. Gi' me a minute to catch ma breath an' I'll go wi' ye." Conway went down and walled up the opening again. When he came back Bachelor Billy was on his feet, walking slowly down the chamber, throwing the light of his lamp into the entrances on the way. "Did he go far fra the openin, thenk ye?" he asked.
"Sandy's a fulish man," said Dauvid, when we landit at the shop door. "Ye micht as weel tell me that twice twa's fower, Dauvid," says I. "Fulish is no' the wird for't." "There's been some haiverin' amon' them aboot rinnin'; an' Sandy, like an auld fule, had been bouncin' aboot what he could do," gaed on Dauvid, withoot mindin' what I said.
Silence!" thundered Christie. A lad and a lass that were slightly flirting were discountenanced. Christie. "'A pund o' that same mairchant's flesh is thine! the coort awards it, and the law does give it." A young Fishwife. "There, I thoucht sae; he's gaun to cut him, he's gaun to cut him; I'll no can bide." Christie. "There's a fulish goloshen.
I'll no believe mysel' 'at the laad I kissed like my ain mither's son afore he gaed awa' wad turn like that upo' 's 'maist the meenute he was oot o' sicht, an' a' for a feow words aboot a fulish play actin'. Lord bliss us a'! markises is men.
Old Gaffer be over proud o' findin' ye, but old Gaffer be dodderin' dodderin' 'e be, an' fulish wi' years; 'e'd ha' done much better to ha' left ye alone I've heerd o' folk sellin' theirselves to the devil afore now, I've likewise heerd o' the 'Evil Eye' afore now ah! an' knows one when I sees it." "Nonsense!" said I sternly, "nonsense! This talk of ghosts and devils is sheer folly.
Nan laughed, colouring a little. "Perhaps I should work harder if Uncle David didn't spoil me so. You know he's increased my allowance lately?" Eliza snorted indignantly. "I always kent he was mair fulish than maist o' his sex." "It's rather an endearing kind of foolishness," remarked Sandy. His mother eyed him sharply.
"Ow! what wad be intil't but jist fulish nonsense? Ye ken some fowk has a queer trick o' sayin' the same thing ower an' ower again to themsel's, wi'oot ony sense intil't. There was the auld laird himsel'; he was ane o' sic. Cosmo did not feel quite satisfied with the explanation, but he made no objection to it.
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