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Some of my creditors said it was owre meikle that I had been simple and wronged mysel'. "'I would wish to the utmost o' my power to be honest, said I; 'and if I hae wronged mysel', I hae saved my conscience. If there be naething else left for me noo, as Burns says 'Heaven be thankit! I can beg. "My business, hooever, had been entirely at a stand for the space o' sax weeks.
But, sirs, this donsie business of the Pentland raid was but a splurt, and the publishing of the Covenant, after the poor folk had made themselves rebels, was, to say the least o't, a weak conceit." "We were not rebels," cried Esau Wardrop. "Hoot toot, friend," said the counsellor, "ye're owre hasty.
There's a person not now in the country, that will be back shortly, I hope; and if any one can prove what I mentioned to you, that person can. I know we'd make a powerful friend by it, but " Here he squirted his thin tobacco spittle "out owre his beard," but added nothing further. "Dunphy, my fine old fellow," said Sam, "it was very kind of you to come to me upon this point.
The description of the burn in Hallowe'en is most beautiful in itself, yet it is but a detail in a great picture 'Whyles owre a linn the burnie plays, As thro' the glen it wimpl't; Whyles round a rocky scaur it strays; Whyles in a wiel it dimpl't; Whyles glitter'd to the nightly rays, Wi' bickerin', dancin' dazzle; Whyles cookit underneath the braes, Below the spreading hazel, Unseen that night.
I mind, tee, o' calling to my aunt as I thought, 'Auntie! do thou hear? bring another blanket to throw owre me, and put out that light I canna get a wink o' sleep for it. Then I thought I found something upon my breast, that was like my little Anne's head, and I put my hand out, and I said, 'Is that thee, Anne love? But there was no answer; and I gied the head a shake, when, my conscience! there was such a frightened squall got up, that I sprang right upon my feet, and, to my astonishment, there had I been lying upon the moor, wi' Dobbin at my side, and the light which I wished to have put out was neither more nor less than the moon!
At the end of a fortnight, the neighbours said to each other "Preserve us a'! saw ye ever sic an alteration as has come owre Sandy Crawford! He's surely seen something that's no canny, and daurna speak aboot it."
And there's just ae thing that I hae to say and to request, and that is, that, if I darena come back to Scotland to marry ye, that ye will come owre to England to me, as soon as I can get into some way o' providing for ye. Will ye promise, Jenny?" "Oh yes! yes, Andrew!" she cried, "I'll come to ye for it is entirely on my account that ye've to flee.
I thocht a hint aforehand would be worth something to you, and that's the reason of my visit." "I see," said Wilson briskly. "You're verra good, Mr. Gibson. You mean you'll give me an inkling in private of the other estimates sent in, and help to arrange mine according?" "Na," said Gibson. "Goudie's owre close to let me ken.
And I had a verra disreputable hat," he added "Rab I christened him, for he was a perfect devil and I never cocked him owre my lug on nichts at e'en but 'Baker! he seemed to whisper, 'Baker! Let us go out and do a bash! And we generally went." "You're a wonderful man!" piped the Deacon. "We may as well wait and see young Gourlay going by," said the ex-Provost. "He'll likely be a sad spectacle."
I dinna need to say that it was that admirable woman wha saved the incorporation-box: the thing is already owre the town, and dootless kenned to ye a', and, I warrant ye, also to yer wives. Why, then, should I accept o' honour I never wrocht for, and couldna hae merited by a' the power and skill o' my puir abilities?
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