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"O soldiers! for your ain dear sakes, For Scotland's love, the Land o' Cakes, Gie not her bairns sic deadly paiks, Nor be sae rude, Wi' firelock or Lochaber-axe, As spill their bluid!" On all occasions when a holiday licensed some riot and irregularity, a skirmish with these veterans was a favourite recreation with the rabble of Edinburgh.
"I'm afraid, my dear lad, that that is what it comes to. We are, I hope you will believe, exceedingly sorry to come to such a conclusion, both for our own sakes and yours, as well as that of your father, who is an old and valued friend of ours; but we are able to see no other way out of the difficulty.
"That's what I thought when I first saw her. But she has a son as old as I am." "Land sakes!" wondered Mrs. Cahill. "You never can tell about these circus folks, anyhow." Phil laughed heartily, but Teddy was too much interested in what was going on outside the fence to indulge in laughter.
He spoke in a penetrating nasal tone as I approached the open door of the room, and what he said to his unknown companion came as such a buffet in the face to me that I turned and walked away. The words I heard were: 'Freydon? Oh yes; clever, in his ten cent way. I allow the chap's honest, mind, but, sakes alive, he's only what a N'York thief would call a "sure thing grafter."
For your own sakes " but here a yell arose which forever drowned his voice. "A spy, a spy!" was the general exclamation. "We are betrayed! Seize him! Knock him over!" and the whole meeting seemed to have turned their backs on the platform and to be advancing on the unfortunate Lothair.
I never could have said anything mean to her if I had known all that." His father went on. "That is why I am telling you this now, my son. Maybe children could understand old people better, if they knew how much they had suffered in their long lives, how much they had lost, and how much they had given up for other people's sakes.
"Sakes alive! Have I got to live inside of that," she snorted. "Why, it's the worst lookin' thing I ever saw. If I don't settle him," she added, " paintin' my porch as if it belonged to him and me as well," she added ambiguously. And, catching up her sun-bonnet, she hastened over to her neighbor's and inquired for Jonathan. "Sure, he's gone to Martin's Junction to see his brother, Mrs. Burke.
The contest of the good among themselves, even concerning the good, vanishes, now that it has become easy to them to love the good for its own sake, and not for their sakes, as the authors of it now that the only interest they can have is that it come to pass, that truth be discovered, that the good deed be executed not by whom it is accomplished.
For their sakes, for your sister's sake, that peace may once more be restored to her troubled heart for the sake of her, from whose lip you dashed the cup of joy, sign the pledge." "I will sign it, Mr. Gray. But name not her whom I have so deeply wronged. I can never see Helen Weston again." "Time heals many a wound, and closes many a breach my young friend."
'I understood that there wouldn't be no objection made. 'Well, you made a mistake, says the other, laughing; 'guess I'd better scratch this out. And it wasn't long before the cap'n met the one who had put him up to doing it, and he give him a blowing up for getting him into such a fix. 'Land sakes alive! says he, 'were you fool enough to set it down in the account?
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