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As soon, however, as the shepherds are asleep 'that may ye all here' Mak borrows a sheep and makes off. Arrived at home he would like to eat the sheep at once, but he is afraid of being followed, so the animal is put in the cradle and wrapped up to resemble a baby, and Mak goes back to take his place among the shepherds.
At last, tae mak a lang story short, she was fairly dune. 'Geordie, says she waikly, 'the beast has quite worn me out! I'm fit to melt there is no strength left in me; here, come and take the rod! Weel, I deleeberately raise, poocht ma pipe, an' gaed doun aside her.
"He that begins o' that gate, laddie, ends by disobeying God and his ain conscience. Gin ye're to be a scholar, God will make you one and if not, ye'll no mak' yoursel' ane in spite o' Him and His commandments." And then he filled his pipe and chuckled away in silence; at last he exploded in a horse-laugh. "So ye gied the ministers a bit o' yer mind?
He was to pay me weel for that, and it seemed no more than fair that he should ha' the valuable words of Harry Lauder to himself, since he was willing to pay for them. But did it mak' a wee bit of difference tae those laddies that I had nought to say to them? That it did not! I bade them all farewell at my hotel.
"This same day at morn I left them i the corn When they rang lauds. They had pasture good they cannot go wrong." That is all right, say the others, and so they settle to sing a song, when a neighbor named Mak comes along. They greet the newcomer with jests. But the second shepherd is suspicious of him. "Thus late as thou goes, What will men suppose?
"Theese are picture for Melisse!" he whispered tensely. "We teach her we show her we mak her know about ceevilize people!" Cummins replaced the books, one at a time, and each he held tenderly for a moment, wiping and blowing away the dust gathered upon it. At the last one of all, which was more ragged and worn than the others, he gazed for a long time.
If he meets any one, let him say he is carrying a letter to Major Bellenden of Charnwood, but without mentioning any names." "I understand, madam," said Jenny Dennison; "I warrant the callant will do weel eneugh, and Tib the hen-wife will tak care o' the geese for a word o' my mouth; and I'll tell Gibbie your leddyship will mak his peace wi' Lady Margaret, and we'll gie him a dollar."
'He wad tak the boy betwix his legges at the fire in winter, and blessing him say "My sillie fatherless and motherless chyld, it's ill to wit what God may mak of thee yet!" Melville finished his curriculum at St. Andrews in 1564, and left with the reputation of being 'the best philosopher, poet, and Grecian of any young maister in the land.
I was about to withdraw, when I heard a familiar voice, above the noise of a phonograph, from one of the rooms just above the bar. It was Geordie's. "Gie us 'Nearer, my God, to Thee," I heard him cry, with drunken unction. "Gin ye haena ane o' the psalms o' Dauvit i' yir kist o' tunes, mak' the creetur play 'Nearer, my God, to Thee."
The freedom of manners that prevailed in the new settlements commonly levelled all difference in rank, and with it, frequently, all considerations of education and intelligence. At the time the ladies entered the store, they were unseen by the owner, who was saying to Kirby: Ah! ha! Monsieur Beel, dis lettair mak me de most happi of mans. Ah! ma chére France! I vill see you again.
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