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'Tain't never no trouble ter bile th' kittle again." "Thank you," said Mr. Jelliffe, as the girl left the room. "I have not yet decided, Doctor, whether that young female is an unmitigated nuisance or a pearl of great price. At any rate we couldn't get along without her." In a few minutes I was allowed to inspect the broken leg, which was resting properly on the pillow.
Usually she managed to do without such a nice tea-kettle as I really was; but, when she had company, she regularly came in for me. This was her usual way of asking for me, after saying good morning: "All your folks pretty well?" "Yes, we are all very well," was the answer usually. "Well, then, I spose you've nothin' agin my havin' your kittle this arternoon.
And, better still, the lady's friend looked as if she wanted it! "Ay! ay!" he said, with all due appearance of carelessness. "Like eneugh. From the mistress downward, they're a' kittle cattle at the inn since I've left 'em. What may it ha' been that she lost?" "She lost a letter." The look of uneasy expectation reappeared in the eye of Mr. Bishopriggs.
The parties engaged in the project being Mr Absolom the writer a man no overly reverential in his opinion of the law and lords when his clients lost their pleas, which, poor folk, was very often and some three or four young and inexperienced lads, that were wont to read essays, and debate the kittle points of divinity and other hidden knowledge, in the Cross-Keys monthly, denying the existence of the soul of man, as Dr Sinney told me, till they were deprived of all rationality by foreign or British spirits.
Where'll you have your fire built? in doors or out?" "Out I would rather, if we can. But can we?" "La, 'tain't nothin' easier it's as easy out as in all you've got to do is to take and roll a couple of pretty sized billets for your fireplace and stick a couple o' crotched sticks for to hang the kittle over I'd as lieve have it out as in, and if anythin' a leetle liever.
Some seven hours' incessant, hard travelling brought us early in the morning to the end of a range of mountains. In front of us there lay a piece of low, broken, desert land, which we must now cross. We sat down, therefore, in a howe of the hill-side till the mist should have risen, and made ourselves a dish of drammach, and held a council of war. "David," said Alan, "this is the kittle bit.
Nor was Elliot the meekest of women, as well I knew, and a word, nay a smile, or a glance of mockery, might lightly turn her heart from me again for ever. Oh! the lot of a lover is hard, at least if he has set all his heart on the cast, as I had done, and verily, as our Scots saw runs, "women are kittle cattle."
If the notes are in the long fold just tip them the forks; but if there is a purse or open money in the case, you must link it. The breast-pocket, on the other hand, is a severer test. 'Picking the suck is sometimes a kittle job, again the philosopher speaks. 'If the coat is buttoned it must be opened by slipping past.
we were oblige to dispence with two of our kitties in order to acquire two of the horses purchasd. to day. we have now only one Small kittle to a mess of 8 men. These people are very fathless in Contracts; they frequently reive the merchindize in exchange for their horses and after Some hours insist on Some additional article being given them or revoke the exchange.
Alas, young sir, we women are kittle cattle; poor perverse toads: excuse us: and keep us in our place, savoir, at arm's length; and so good-night!" At the door she turned and said, with a complete change of tone and manner: "The Virgin guard thy head, and the holy Evangelists watch the bed where lies a poor young wanderer far from home! Amen!"
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