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The breeks pooches were foo o' nails an' strings, an' as muckle ither rubbish as you wudda gotten in Peattie Broon's, the pigman's, back shop. There was a lot o' fiddle rozit i' the weyscot, an' a box o' queer-lookin' ointment ca'd auntie stuff. But what strack me first was that his seamit an' his drawers werena there.
Liz looked quite capable of putting her threat into execution, and Gladys shrank a little away from the fierceness of her eyes. 'Ye are ower genty. His kind need somebody that'll fecht. If he was my uncle, and had as muckle money as they say he has, I'd walk oot in silk and velvet in spite o' his face. I'd hing them a' up, an' then he'd need to pay.
"Noo, laddie, there's something wrang," I said. "I've had nae letter from you aboot that thousand dollars!" "It's the mails!" he said, and cursed. "I'm a fule to trust to them. They're always missending letters and delaying them. Still, there's no harm done. I'm telling you now I need a thousand dollars. Have you that much with you?" "I dinna carrie sae muckle siller wi' me, laddie," I said.
It belonged to a grit an' gran' hoose the Lord hae respec till't, for it's no joke o' a hoose that as I weel kent afore a' was ower! Man, ye had better lay han's upon a torpedo, or a galvanic battery, nor upon a woman I mean a woman that ye hae ony attraction till for she'll gar ye dirl till ye dinna ken yer thoomb frae yer muckle tae.
'Ye micht hae let a body ken ye were comin'. Sic a potch, she said ruefully. 'My, but ye are a picter, an nae mistak'. Gladys laughed, and the sound rang through the place like sweetest music. 'Have you not been quite well? I think you are thinner, she said kindly. 'No, I've no' been up to muckle; fair helpless some days wi' rheumatics.
But I am thinking they are settled in their skeps for the night; sae I wuss your honour good-night, and grace, and muckle o't." So saying, Andrew retreated, but often cast a parting glance upon the skeps, as he called the bee-hives. I had indirectly gained from him an important piece of information, that Father Vaughan, namely, was not supposed to be at the Hall.
She had been born and brought up in a yet wilder region, but the storm threatened to be such as in her experience was unparalleled. 'God preserve 's! cried the poor woman, 'can this be the en' o' a'thing? Is the earth turnin intil a muckle snaw-wreath, 'at whan a' are deid, there may be nae miss o' fowk to beery them? Eh, sic a sepulchrin!
"I like ale better," said another, "provided it is right juice of John Barleycorn." "Better never was malted," said Milnwood; "I can hardly say sae muckle for the claret. It's thin and cauld, gentlemen." "Brandy will cure that," said a third fellow; "a glass of brandy to three glasses of wine prevents the curmurring in the stomach."
It was mair nor ae year or twa 'at he leeved aboot the place, an' naebody cared muckle for his company, though a' body was ower feart to lat him ken he was na welcome here or there; for wha cud tell he micht oot wi' the swoord he aye carriet, an' mak an' en' o' 'im!
"It's the woo', man, it's the woo', and no the beasts themsells, that makes them be ca'd lang or short. I believe if ye were to measure their backs, the short sheep wad be rather the langer-bodied o' the twa; but it's the woo' that pays the rent in thae days, and it had muckle need."
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