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'F y' ever rid on that seddle once, y' would n' try it ag'in, very spry, not 'f y' c'd haalp y'rsaalf. "I tried it, darned 'f I sot daown f'r th' nex' week, eat all my victuals stan'in'. I sh'd like t' hev them things wal enough to heng up 'n the stable; 'f y' want t' trade some day, fetch 'em along daown."
There can be no doubt that Gowran purposely slurred the word so that his mistress should not understand him. "Seddles don't come for nowt, my leddie, though it be Ayrshire." "I don't understand what it is that you say, Andy." "A seddle, my leddie," said he, shouting the word at her at the top of his voice, "and a briddle. I suppose as your leddyship's cousin don't ride bare-back up in Lunnon?"
We hae been throuw ower muckle thegither to change to are anither. It was for his sake and the laddie's ain that I wantit him to come to me. I wantit a word wi' him aboot that powny o' his. You 'at's sae weel at hame i' the seddle yersel, mem, micht tak a kin'ly care o' what's aneth his! 'I will have no one interfere with my son. I am quite capable of teaching him his duty myself.
"When a fellah goes out huntin' and shoots a squirrel, do you think he's go'n' to let another fellah pick him up and kerry him off? Not if he's got a double-berril gun, and t'other berril ha'n't been fired off yet! I should like to see the mahn that'll take off that seddle 'n' bridle, excep' the one th't hez a fair right to the whole concern!"
'F y' ever rid on that seddle once, y' would n' try it ag'in, very spry, not 'f y' c'd haalp y'rsaalf. "I tried it, darned 'f I sot daown f'r th' nex' week, eat all my victuals stan'in'. I sh'd like t' hev them things wal enough to heng up 'n the stable; 'f y' want t' trade some day, fetch 'em along daown."
"Do you mean to tell me that my cousin cannot be supplied with an animal to ride upon?" "My leddie, I've said nowt o' the kind. There ain't no useful animal as I kens the name and nature of as he can't have in Ayrshire, for paying for it, my leddie; horse, pownie, or ass, just whichever you please, my leddie. But there'll be a seddle " "A what?"
'F y' ever rid on that seddle once, y' wouldn' try it ag'in, very spry, not 'f y' c'd haälp y'rsaälf. I tried it, darned 'f I sot daown f'r th' nex' week, ëat all my victuals stan'in'. I sh'd like t' hev them things wal enough to heng up 'n the stable; 'f y' want t' trade some day, fetch 'em along daown."
"When a fellah goes out huntin' and shoots a squirrel, do you think he's go'n' to let another fellah pick him up and kerry him off? Not if he's got a double-berril gun, and t'other berril ha'n't been fired off yet! I should like to see the mahn that'll take off that seddle 'n' bridle, excep' the one th't hez a fair right to the whole concern!"
"Stan' yur groun'!" shouted the squatter in a tone of menace "stan' yur groun'! Don't dar to turn yur face from me! Ef ye do, ye'll only get the bullet in yur back. Now, confess! or, by the etarnal God! you hain't another second to sit in that seddle!" The quick threatening manner in which the speaker grasped his gun, told Stebbins that prevarication would be idle.
'God bless my sowl! he cried, 'hae ye the spurs on as weel? Stick ane o' them intil him again, and I'll cast ye frae the seddle. I' the thick o' a fecht, the lang blades playin aboot yer father's heid like lichts i' the north, he never stack spur intil 's chairger needless!
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