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"No, mum; haven't the pleasure of that gent's acquaintance, though I would like to enjoy it. I come to Mrs. Scott, however, and on particular unpleasant business. What is your full name, mum?" gruffly inquired the policeman, approaching her. "And what will my name be to you, ye rude mon? And wha ga'ed ye commission to force yersel, on my company at my dinner?" indignantly inquired Rose.
She stopped it ere she had gone farther than a bar or two, and turned to find Mungo irresolute and disturbed. "He ga'ed awa' " began the little man, with the whisper of the conspirator. "Mungo!" she cried, "you will not say a word of it. It is all bye with me, and what for not with you? I command you to say no more about it, do you hear?"
Miss Graeme, my dear, we would need to be carefu'. If I'm no' mistaken, I saw one o' Norman's spotted handkerchiefs about the neck o' yon lang Johnny Heeman, and yon little Irish lassie ga'ed past me the day, with a pinafore very like one o' Menie's. I maun ha' a look at it again." "Oh, Janet! never mind. I gave wee Norah the pinafore, and the old brown frock besides. She had much need of them.
"'I ga'ed a waefu' gate yestreen, A gate I fear I'll dearly rue; I gat my death frae twa sweet een, Twa lovely een o' bonnie blue. "Mine are brown, Mrs. Burke the eyes you wot of; but alas! the family is an upstart one, and that is strongly against the Protestant interest in the case. Heigho!"
To these repaired, almost daily, Caleb, accompanied by one or another of his host's five sons; and the result of their efforts with the gun was no inconsiderable addition to the table at Ga'ed Light. But greatest of all the wonders at the Head are the Fossil Cliffs. A short time after the arrival of our travellers, their hostess inquired if they had yet found any fossils.
Caleb, at last, demanding to see the "good conveyance," was led away to the head of the wharf, when Youth at once seized the opportunity to rush in, and breathlessly inquire of Mysie, "Wher' ye goin', Ma'am? Wher' ye want to be kerried?" "We are going to Gay-Head Light-house; but my" "Ga'ed Light? I kin kerry ye there fust-rate, and cheap too; kerry ye there for two dollars!"
Wilderspin," said a child at Glasgow one day, "that we have an oblong table: it's made o' deal; four sides, four corners, twa lang sides, and twa short anes; corners mean angles, and angles mean corners. My brother ga'ed himsel sic a clink o' the eye against ane at hame; but ye ken there was nane that could tell the shape o' the thing that did it!"
The morning after their arrival, our travellers, strong with the vigor of the young day, set forth to explore the cliffs, bidding adieu to original Youth, who, standing ready to depart, beside his horse, was carolling the following ditty in glorification of his native town: "Ga'ed Light is out o' sight, Menemshee Crik is sandy, Holmes's Hole's a pooty place, An' Oldtown Pint's onhandy."
At these last words, a "subtle smile, foreboding triumph," broke over Dave's composed features, as he muttered, "Reckin you'll need one 'fore you reach Ga'ed Light."
The bars were soon removed by Youth, who triumphantly announced, as Cha-os walked slowly through the opening thus presented, "Now we're on Ga'ed, an' I'll run along and take down the next bars, if you kin drive. Git along, Tom, you ha'n't got nothin' but two feathers ahind you now." "How far is it to the Light-house?" inquired Mysie, faintly.
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