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But the minister was neither to haud nor to bind; he preached about naething but the folk's cruelty that had gi'en her a stroke of the palsy; he skelpt the bairns that meddled her; and he had her up to the manse that same nicht, and dwalled there a' his lane wi' her under the Hangin' Shaw. Weel, time gaed by: and the idler sort commenced to think mair lichtly o' that black business.
'Mind hoo ye gang, sir, she resumed, returning with a candle. 'There's nae flurin' there. Haud i' the middle efter me, or ye'll gang throu. She led him into a room, with nothing in it but a bed, a table, and a chair. On the table was a half-made shirt. In the bed lay a tiny baby, fast asleep. It had been locked up alone in the dreary garret.
"But hoo i' the deil can I haud her in when she'll no stop in?" his perspiring father would reply, gasping for breath between each word.
"If he downs me, Gawd bless him!" said the Master, "An' if we down him, Gawd help him!" interrupted the woman. "Haud thy tongue, wench!" said the Master, impatiently. "Who art thou to put in thy word? Happen I might draw my hand across thy face." The woman did not take the threat amiss. "Wilt have enough for thy hand to do, Jock," said she. "Get quit o' this gradely man afore thou turn on me."
Accordingly I began noting down, and using in my exercises, idiomatic or peculiar expressions: such as ‘oleum perdidi,’ ‘haud scio an non,’ ‘cogitanti mihi,’ ‘verum enimvero,’ ‘equidem,’ ‘dixerim,’ and the like; and I made a great point of putting the verb at the end of the sentence.
"I guess I was thyar," said a voice behind the judge, who shifted uneasily. McLaughlan went into the jury-box with a meaning look at Robinson, but without another audible word. "Mercy! mercy!" cried Walker. "You must not interrupt the proceedings," said Judge Lynch. "Haud your whist, ye gowk. Ye are no fand guilty yet," remonstrated a juror. The jury being formed, the judge called the plaintiff.
"Lay't doon o' the table, an' rin." "Na, na, Curly; I cudna do that. Puir little crater!" "Is the beastie heavy?" asked Curly, with deceitful interest. "Dreadfu'." "Lat's try." "Ye'll lat her fa'." "Deed no. Gie's a haud o' her." Annie yielded her charge; but no sooner had Curly possession of the baby, than he bounded away with her out of the garden into the back yard adjoining the house.
"O Lord," she said in her great trusting heart, "gien my bonny man be droonin' i' the watter, or deein' o' cauld on the hill-side, haud 's han'. Binna far frae him, O Lord; dinna lat him be fleyt." To Janet, what we call life and death were comparatively small matters, but she was very tender over suffering and fear.
As we parted in different directions, the good woman said, 'Oh, sir, if ye wad but ask Willie to tell ye ane of his tales to shorten the gate! He can speak like ony minister frae the pu'pit, and he might have been a minister himsell, but' 'Haud your tongue, ye fule! said Willie, 'But stay, Meg gie me a kiss, ne maunna part in anger, neither. And thus our society separated.
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