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The very day his regiment landed in England he got gloriously drunk and it was only by the simple but very certain method of prodding him with the point of a bayonet in the immediate rear that he was kept from falling out of the ranks and going to sleep on the roadside. "I didna know ye were gaun ta march the nicht oor I wudna hae got drunk," he apologized. So it was always. Smith was dirty.
"But what cud the ghaist hae been wantin'? No the corp, for he turnt awa', ye tell me, frae hit," Cosmo ventured at length to remark. "Wha can say what ghaists may be efter, laddie!
The moment he entered the garret, Mr Cupples, who had already consumed his nightly portion, saw that he had been drinking. He looked at him with blue eyes, wide-opened, dismay and toddy combining to render them of uncertain vision. "Eh, bantam! bantam!" he said, and sank back in his chair; "ye hae been at it in spite o' me."
"She'll hae £50,000!" said the laird sententiously. "I would not sell myself for £50,000." "You'd be a vera dear bargain at half the price to any woman, Colin. And you never saw Isabel. She was here when you were in Glasgow. She has the bonniest black e'en in Scotland, and hair like a raven's wing."
The Guards and Highlanders strove in friendly emulation who should be first in the Russian redoubt; but Sir Colin, well ahead of his own men was first in the battery shouting: "We'll hae nane but Highland bonnets here!" and his troops rushed in after him like lions.
'Ow, ay, I maun gang to my bed, and syne to the kirkyaird, and syne to hell, I ken that weel eneuch. Robert, I lea my fiddle to you. Be guid to the auld wife, man better nor I hae been. An auld wife's better nor nae fiddle. He stooped, lifted the violin with his left hand, gave it to Robert, rose, and made for the door.
Then catching his host's gleaming eye, said brokenly, 'It's the Well it's the most extraordinary thing that ever happened to me i' my life. The ghastly noise then to find this bit paper lyin' i' my room. 'What is the paper? inquired the Minister. 'Can ye no hae brocht it wi' ye yoursel'?
But my auld een's drawing thegither dinna hurry yoursell, my bonny man, tak mind about the putting out the candle, and there's a horn of ale, and a glass of clow-gillie-flower water; I dinna gie ilka body that; I keep it for a pain I hae whiles in my ain stamach, and it's better for your young blood than brandy. Sae, gude-night to ye, Mr Henry, and see that ye tak gude care o' the candle."
There's mony a sweet sunny spot on its banks, an' mony a time an' aft hae I waded through its shallows, whan a boy, to set my little scautling-line for the trouts an' the eels, or to gather the big pearl-mussels that lie sae thick in the fords. But its bonny wooded banks are places for enjoying the day in no for passing the nicht.
"Was a thorough blackguard a' his life, I dare say," said Sharpitlaw. "A stranger he was in this country, and a companion of that lawless vagabond, Wilson, I think, Effie?" "It wad hae been dearly telling him that he had ne'er seen Wilson's face." "That's very true that you are saying, Effie," said Sharpitlaw. "Where was't that Robertson and you were used to howff thegither?