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Upon all the length of the platform there was no sign of Mr. Tibbles, otherwise Sawney Tom. Mr. Carter awoke the porter, and sent him to the station-master to ask if any letter addressed to Mr. Henry Carter had been left in that functionary's care.
The two men who had been standing in the doorway of the hut drew near, and Sawney jumped down from the cart. The announcement made by the traveller was very interesting. "Yes," said the man in the waterproof, pulling his collar up a little higher, for the rain was increasing, "you are to have one hundred and four pounds a year, Mrs.
Sawney, one of them, came to join it nearly at sun-down, not having got through his day's task before. In watching and listening to these lads, I was constantly struck with the insolent tyranny of their demeanour towards each other. This is almost a universal characteristic of the manner of the negroes among themselves.
It's a good dodge, a very neat dodge, and if Sawney hadn't been at the station, Mr. Joseph Wilmot would have given us the slip as neatly as ever a man did yet. But if Mr. Thomas Tibbles is true, we shall nab him, and bring him home as quiet as ever any little boy was took to school by his mar and par. If Mr.
"Now, we are all here," said Charlton. "I had to ask Mrs. Ferret, and I was afraid she'd come." "Not her!" said Jim. "Why?" "She kin do better." "How?" "She staid to meet her beloved." "Who's that?" "Dave." Jim didn't like to give any more information than would serve to answer a question. He liked to be pumped. "Dave Sawney?" "The same.
For he ain't over and above half well off, that's a fact. Well, a critter of the name of Oatmeal, down to Pictou, said to another Scotchman there one day, 'The great nateralist Dr. Mc'Dougall is come to town. "'Who? says Sawney. "'Dr. Mc'Dougall, the nateralist, says Oatmeal.
"The drove can pe gang two, three, four miles very pratty weel indeed " said the cautious Highlander; "put what would his honour pe axing for the peasts pe the head, if she was to tak the park for twa or three days?" "We wont differ, Sawney, if you let me have six stots for winterers, in the way of reason." "And which peasts wad your honour pe for having?"
The galloway was turned out upon the fell, and was swear to catch "Aweel, aweel, there's nae help for't, but come up the morn at ony rate. "Hout fie, Mr. Dinmont, that's no like you, to gie the country an ill name I wot, there has been nane stirred in the Waste since Sawney Culloch, the travelling-merchant, that Rowley Overdees and Jock Penny suffered for at Carlisle twa years since.
The parties who were interested in the town of Perritaut had got wind of Dave's proposition; and as they saw how important his influence might be in the coming election, they took pains to satisfy Monsieur Perritaut that Mr. Sawney was a very proper person to marry his tawny daughter and pocket his yellow gold-pieces. The lawyer was just finishing the necessary documents when Dave entered.
It shows the influence of schripcheral training by a praying mother, I've no doubt, Mr. Sawney." Dave was flattered and annoyed at this mention, and he looked at little Katy, but she didn't seem to feel any interest in the matter, and so he took heart. "I felt it my dooty, Mrs. Ferret, indeed I did." "I respect you for it, Mr. Sawney." "For what?" said Albert irascibly.
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