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SAIN, mark with the sign of the cross, bless. SAIR, sore, very. SAUMON, salmon. SAUT, salt. SAY, a sample. SCHELLUM, a rascal. SCOUPING, scowping, skipping, leaping, running. SEANNACHIE, a Highland antiquary. SHEARING, reaping, harvest. SHILPIT, weak, sickly. SHOON, shoes. SIC, siccan, such.
But when they saw how the pistol lay, they fancied it accident in the dark; 'For, said the woman 'I and my daughter have been up ever since day-break, and I am sure no such thing happened then, nor could they since escape: and it being natural in Holland to cry, 'Loop Schellum', that is, 'Run rogue', to him that is alive, and who has killed another; and for every man to set a helping hand to bear him out of danger, thinking it too much that one is already dead: I say, this being the nature of the people, they never pursued the murderers, or fled persons, but suffered Sebastian to lie till the coroner sat upon him, who found it, or at least thought it accident; and there was all for that time.
'Upon my conscience, Rose, ejaculated the Baron, 'the gratitude o' thae dumb brutes and of that puir innocent brings the tears into my auld een, while that schellum Malcolm but I'm obliged to Colonel Talbot for putting my hounds into such good condition, and likewise for puir Davie. But, Rose, my dear, we must not permit them to be a life-rent burden upon the estate.
'Upon my conscience, Rose, ejaculated the Baron, 'the gratitude o' thae dumb brutes and of that puir innocent brings the tears into my auld een, while that schellum Malcolm but I'm obliged to Colonel Talbot for putting my hounds into such good condition, and likewise for puir Davie. But, Rose, my dear, we must not permit them to be a life-rent burden upon the estate.
'Upon my conscience, Rose, ejaculated the Baron, 'the gratitude o' thae dumb brutes and of that puir innocent brings the tears into my auld een, while that schellum Malcolm but I'm obliged to Colonel Talbot for putting my hounds into such good condition, and likewise for puir Davie. But, Rose, my dear, we must not permit them to be a life-rent burden upon the estate.
'Upon my conscience, Rose, ejaculated the Baron, 'the gratitude o' thae dumb brutes, and of that puir innocent, brings the tears into my auld een, while that schellum Malcolm but I'm obliged to Colonel Talbot for putting my hounds into such good condition, and likewise for puir Davie. But, Rose, my dear, we must not permit them to be a liferent burden upon the estate.
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