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"Your honour," said Alison Breck, who was next in age to the deceased, "suld send doun something to us for keeping up our hearts at the lykewake, for a' Saunders's gin, puir man, was drucken out at the burial o' Steenie, and we'll no get mony to sit dry-lipped aside the corpse.

'I have made things decent, she said; 'I may be streekit here or night. There will be few, few at Meg's lykewake, for mony of our folk will blame what I hae done, and am to do! She then pointed to a table, upon which was some cold meat, arranged with more attention to neatness than could have been expected from Meg's habits. 'Eat, she said 'eat; ye'll need it this night yet.

Mr Dunshunner! you have been a great stranger at Lykewake Terrace!" "Take a muffin, Mr Sawley. Anything new in the railway world?" "Ah, my dear sir my good Mr Augustus Reginald I wanted to have some serious conversation with you on that very point. I am afraid there is something far wrong indeed in the present state of our stock."

'Ay, ay, dead enough, said another; 'but here's what shall give him a rousing lykewake. So saying, he fetched a keg of spirits from a corner, while Meg hastened to display pipes and tobacco. From the activity with which she undertook the task, Brown conceived good hope of her fidelity towards her guest.

"Your honour," said Alison Breck, who was next in age to the deceased, "suld send doun something to us for keeping up our hearts at the lykewake, for a' Saunders's gin, puir man, was drucken out at the burial o' Steenie, and we'll no get mony to sit dry-lipped aside the corpse.

'Ay, ay, dead enough, said another; 'but here's what shall give him a rousing lykewake. So saying, he fetched a keg of spirits from a corner, while Meg hastened to display pipes and tobacco. From the activity with which she undertook the task, Brown conceived good hope of her fidelity towards her guest.

Dunshunner, you have been a great stranger at Lykewake Terrace!" "Take a muffin, Mr. Sawley. Anything new in the railway world?" "Ah, my dear sir, my good Mr. Augustus Reginald, I wanted to have some serious conversation with you on that very point. I am afraid there is something far wrong indeed in the present state of our stock."

"Ay, ay dead enough," said another "but here's what shall give him a rousing lykewake." So saying, he fetched a keg of spirits from a corner, while Meg hastened to display pipes and tobacco. From the activity with which she undertook the task, Brown conceived good hope of her fidelity towards her guest.

'I have made things decent, she said; 'I may be streekit here or night. There will be few, few at Meg's lykewake, for mony of our folk will blame what I hae done, and am to do! She then pointed to a table, upon which was some cold meat, arranged with more attention to neatness than could have been expected from Meg's habits. 'Eat, she said 'eat; ye'll need it this night yet.

'I have made things decent, she said; 'I may be streekit here or night. There will be few, few at Meg's lykewake, for mony of our folk will blame what I hae done, and am to do! She then pointed to a table, upon which was some cold meat, arranged with more attention to neatness than could have been expected from Meg's habits. 'Eat, she said 'eat; ye'll need it this night yet.