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Th' hero sthruts through histhry with his chin up in th' air, his scipter in his hand an' his crown on his head. But behind him dances a boot-black imitatin' his walk an' makin' faces at him. Fame invites a man out iv his house to be crowned f'r his gloryous deeds, an' sarves him with a warrant f'r batin' his wife. 'Tis not in th' nature iv things that it shudden't be so.
Course, it's up to me to produce an explanation. Which I does prompt. "Oh, that's nothing!" says I. "They're just tryin' the duck waddle, imitatin' their neighbors in the next run. Turkeys always do that sooner or later if you have ducks near 'em. They keep at it until they're dizzy." "Really, now?" says Basil. "I never heard that before."
There was ower muckle preachin', and some of the ladies looked at us as if we were dirt, responded Teen candidly. 'Ye should hae heard Liz when we cam' oot. It was as guid as a play to hear her imitatin' them. Gladys looked thoughtful, and a trifle distressed. Curiously, at the moment she could not help thinking of the many societies and associations with which Mrs.
To me it seems as If there were more pale-faces than red-skins among our visitors." "That's not onlikely, captain the people has got to be greatly given to paintin' and imitatin', sin' the hatchet has been dug up ag'in the British. The tea-boys were all in Indian fashion." "True; but, why should white men assume such a disguise to come to the Knoll?
"It happens to women, too, does it not, mother?" said Dahlia. "They're most subject to trances, my sweet. From always imitatin' they imitates their deaths at last; and, oh!" Mrs. Sumfit was taken with nervous chokings of alarm at the thought. "Alone all dark! and hard wood upon your chest, your elbows, your nose, your toes, and you under heaps o' gravel!
Answer me that, if ye please. Bailies are pretty high and mighty in this town, they are; but I never heard yet that the street belonged to them, and that a laddie was in danger of death if he followed in their steps. That would be a fine pass. Aren't boys always imitatin' somebody?
"It happens to women, too, does it not, mother?" said Dahlia. "They're most subject to trances, my sweet. From always imitatin' they imitates their deaths at last; and, oh!" Mrs. Sumfit was taken with nervous chokings of alarm at the thought. "Alone all dark! and hard wood upon your chest, your elbows, your nose, your toes, and you under heaps o' gravel!
I wondered! who could be up so early, an' puttin' my head through the door, there was Dinny busy at it, wid an ould knife in one hand, an' an iron skiver in the other imitatin' a fork. "'What are you doin' so early, Dinny? says I. "'I'm practisin', says he. "'What for? says I.
"`Thank you, Miss, said the boy, turnin' to Miss Di with a low bow, imitatin' Sir Richard's manner, I thought, as much as he could. "`Of course, continued the master, rather sharply, `I offer you this situation out of mere charity "`Oh! you do, do you? said the extraordinary boy in the coolest manner, `but wot if I objec' to receive charity?
Peter McGuffie senior gave his opinion of the conduct of Bailie MacConachie, which he had been doing already for some time with much effect. "Imitatin' ye, was he, and followin' ye along the street, walkin' as ye walk, and so ye knocked him down in open day? Why should he not be doing as ye did? Is yir walk protected by law, that nobody dare step the same way on the streets of Muirtown?
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