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And now, gudewife, I maun ride, to get to the Liddel or it be dark, for your Waste has but a kittle character, ye ken yoursell. 'Hout fie, Mr. Dinmont, that's no like you, to gie the country an ill name. I wot, there has been nane stirred in the Waste since Sawney Culloch, the travelling-merchant, that Rowley Overdees and Jock Penny suffered for at Carlisle twa years since.
Why, Fred, she'd invite you to a dinner tete-a-tete to-day, if she thought you'd go." Mr. Staggchase laughed rather significantly. "Gad! that might be amusing. She is of the kittle cattle, my dear, but you must own that she's a well-built craft." "Oh, certainly," replied his better half, who was too canny by far to show annoyance, if indeed she felt any, when her husband praised another woman.
Mick! Jenny! put the kittle down. Mr. Carv. Sit down, sit still, my worthy fellow. Breakfasted at Bob's Fort, as I always do. O'Bla. But a bit of cake a glass of wine, to refrish and replinish nature. Mr. Carv. Too early spoil my dinner. But what was I going to say? O'Bla. Mr. Carv. I recollect. How many times do you think I was stopped on horseback coming up the street of Ballynavogue?
"The first thing, then, is to thank God for our deliverance, which we all do, I am sure, most heartily." This was received with a responsive "Amen" from every one not even excepting Black Ned. "Next, we must find fresh water and boil a bit of pork " "Ah, then, we haven't a kittle!" exclaimed O'Connor. "Haven't we a big baling-dish, Terrence?" said Hayward.
If the children was playin' 'Jinny, Put the Kittle on, Dick would git kissed ten times to any other boy's once; and if it was 'Drop the Handkerchief, every little gyirl in the ring'd be droppin' it behind Dick to git him to run after her, and that was the only time Dick ever did any runnin'. All he had to do was jest to sit still, and the gyirls did the runnin'. It was that way all his life; and folks used to say there was jest one woman in the world that Dick couldn't make a fool of, and that was his cousin Penelope, the old Squire's brother's child.
No, the taters ain't over plenty," continued the old man, peering into the pot, and sinking his voice to a whisper, "but there wasn't but fifteen in the bag, and the woman took twelve of 'em fur her kittle, and ye can't make three taters look act'ally crowded in two gallons of soup, can ye, Bill?"
At full flood the force of water down this narrow gorge must be rather tremendous, it is said to be forty fathoms deep then, and the captain told me, that when steaming up at fourteen knots, they could sometimes barely make way! Coming down must be kittle steering, I'd think. It is a good country for elephants. I am told.
'Mamma's got de whoopin' cough, Daddy's got de measles, Dat's whar de money goes, Pop goes de weasel. 'Buffalo gals, can't you come out tonight, Come out tonight, an' dance by de light of de moon? 'Gennie, put de kettle on, Sallie, boil de water strong, Gennie, put de kittle on An' le's have tea! 'Run tell Coleman, Run tell everbody Dat de niggers is arisin'!
'How, and in what manner? 'Her ain sell, replied Callum, 'could wait for him a wee bit frae the toun, and kittle his quarters wi'her skene-occle. 'Skene-occle! what's that? Callum unbuttoned his coat, raised his left arm, and, with an emphatic nod, pointed to the hilt of a small dirk, snugly deposited under it, in the lining of his jacket.
I felt the full and generous delicacy of the proposal, and, with moistened eyes and a swelling heart, availed myself of his kindness. The sum he tendered did not much exceed a guinea; but the yearly earnings of the peasant Burns fell, at this period of his life, rather below eight pounds. "Corbies an' clergy are a shot right kittle." Brigs of Ayr.
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