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"I can gie your memory a prod upo' the dates, sir. For I ken weel the nicht whan Alec Forbes cam' hame wi' a lang and a deep cut upo' the ootside o' 's left airm atween the shouther an' the elbuck.
"It's saft ootside an' I've been paidlin' in the snow," he said and, with the poacher's instinctive caution, put his feet out of sight beneath a table. "Where have you been in the dark?" Foster asked. "I thought I'd maybe better watch the bridge over yon bit creek." Foster frowned. It looked as if he had not much talent for detective work and could only concentrate upon one point at a time.
John," concluded Grimond when his master had remonstrated with him for speaking against the Prince and an officer of the army, and warned him to be careful of his tongue, "ye needna be feart that a word o' this will be heard ootside.
"He aye can tell what's wrang wi' a body, an' maistly he can put ye richt, and there's nae new-fangled wys wi' him: a blister for the ootside an' Epsom salts for the inside dis his wark, an' they say there's no an herb on the hills he disna ken.
"Ye wad be a queer objec' on the ootside o' a horse," remarked Macleod cynically. "Why, Mac, ye wouldn't have me go inside of a horse, would ye?" "It wad be much the same which way ye went," returned the Scot. "Ah, thin, the horse wouldn't think so, unless he was a donkey!"
For it's in your heart and mine that we'll find the makings of the bonnier world I can see, for a' the pain. Let's stop together and think a bit. We were happy, many of us, in yon days before the war. Our loved yins were wi' us. There was peace i' a' the world. We had no thought that any wind could come blowing frae ootside ourselves that would cast down the hoose of our happiness. Wasna that sae?
"He aye can tell what's wrang wi' a body, an' maistly he can put ye richt, and there's nae new-fangled wys wi' him: a blister for the ootside an' Epsom salts for the inside dis his wark, an' they say there's no an herb on the hills he disna ken.
If the subject was dress, he might then become a little irritating. "Oh, they're grand," Jess admitted; "they set a body aff oncommon." "They would be no use to you," said Hendry, "for ye canna wear them except ootside." "A body doesna buy cloaks to be wearin' at them steady," retorted Jess. "No, no, but you could never wear yours though ye had ane." "I dinna want ane.
"He aye can tell what's wrong wi' a body, an' maistly he can put ye richt, and there's nae new-fangled wys wi' him; a blister for the ootside an' Epsom salts for the inside dis his wark, an' they say there's no an herb on the hills he disna ken.
"Aweel," remarked Peter, "it's no the ootside o' her heid Miss Marjory's thinkin' o' the day, but the inside o't to fill it up wi' buik-larnin'." "Puir bairnie, I just hope yon governess winna be ower strict wi' her at the first. Mind an' tell Peter an' Lisbeth if she's no kind to ye," said the old woman earnestly. She was more than half jealous of this new authority over Marjory's doings.
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