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Ye dinna ken, sir, but that the young woman's looks are her worst fault; and, indeed, I hae heard her spoken o' as a lassie o' great sense and discretion, and as having an excellent temper; and, oh, sir, if ye kenned as weel what it is to be married as I do, ye would think that a good temper was a recommendation far before beauty."
"I saw a minister lad the day a stranger," said Winsome, very quietly. "Sirce me," returned her grandmother briskly; "kenned I e'er the like o' ye, Winifred Chayrteris, for licht-heedit-ness an' lack o' a' common sense! Was he young, or auld or no sae verra auld, like mysel'? Did he look like an Establisher by the consequence o' the body, or "
"And how did it turn out?" inquired a stranger in the party. "I tell ye, I was coortin' twenty year, an' in that time I kenned what wumman was, an' so I didna marry." Jack disliked being kissed, and, being a handsome little chap, sometimes had a good deal to put up with. One day he had been kissed a lot.
Allen," said Ellen, weeping, "and so I do love him better than anybody in the world, except two. But oh! I want my brother; I don't know how to be happy or good either without him. I want him all the while." "Miss Ellen, I kenned and loved your dear mither weel for mony a day will ye mind if I speak a word to her bairn?" "No, dear Mrs. Allen, I'll thank you. Did you know my mother?"
We were still standin' opposite each ither he wi' his knife and me wi' the stick when the general he cam up the drive and foond us. Tae my surprise he began tae talk tae the stranger as if he'd kenned him a' his days. "Put your knife in your pocket, Corporal," says he. "Your fears have turned your brain." "Blood an' wounds!" says the other.
I dinna need to say that it was that admirable woman wha saved the incorporation-box: the thing is already owre the town, and dootless kenned to ye a', and, I warrant ye, also to yer wives. Why, then, should I accept o' honour I never wrocht for, and couldna hae merited by a' the power and skill o' my puir abilities?
Ye sud hae kenned better at your age, Rob. Ye sud hae thoucht twise, man." "'Deed, sir," answered Robert, quietly finishing his pinch of snuff, "there was sma' need, an' less time to think, an' Glashgar bursten, an' the watter comin' ower the tap o' the bit hoosie as gien 'twar a muckle owershot wheel, an' no a place for fowk to bide in.
"Still, John, though we hae nae warrant to hold thee, we are beholden to do sae; an' thou maun come wi' us," said Bailie Inkster. "Wrang has nae warrant at ony time, an' ye will no touch my lad," said Alison, rising and standing before her son. "Come, dame, keep a still tongue." "My tongue's no under thy belt, Tulloch; but it's weel kenned that since thou wranged us thou ne'er liked us."
So, shaking himself like a water-dog, he climbed up on the grass, where he collected the fish into a large fishing basket which Winsome had brought. He looked them over and said, as he handled one of them: "Oh, ye're there, are ye? I kenned I wad get ye some day, impidence. Ye hae nae business i' this pool ony way. Ye belang half a mile faurer up, my lad; ye'll bite aff nae mair o' my heuks.
"I've been on the track o' the thing for a while back, but it was only yestreen I had the proofs o't. It was Robin Wabster that telled me. He's a jouking bodie, Robin, and he was ahint a dike up the Skeighan Road when Gibson and Gourlay forgathered they stoppit just forenenst him! Gourlay began to curse at the size of Gibson's bill, but Cunning Johnny kenned the way to get round him brawly. 'Mr.
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