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Roond an' roond ain another the dauntless airmen caircled, the noo above, the noo below the ither. Wi' supairb resolution Tam o' the Scoots nose-dived for the wee feller's tail, loosin' a drum at the puir body as he endeavoured to escape the lichtenin' swoop o' the intrepid Scotsman. Wi' matchless skeel, Tam o' the Scoots banked over an' brocht the gallant miscreant to terra firma puir laddie!
They were guarded by Corporal Inglis and four soldiers, who, as may readily be supposed, were much more intent on watching the fluctuating fortunes of the battle, than in attending to what passed among their prisoners. "If you lads stand to their tackle," said Cuddie, "we'll hae some chance o' getting our necks out o' the brecham again; but I misdoubt them they hae little skeel o' arms."
No one man could manage your gerden, and it canna be managed without some clever chiel, what understands the sceence." "The what?" "The sceence, your honor." "Why, confound you, sir, what science is necessary in gardening?" "I tell your honor that the management of a gerden requires baith skeel and knowledge, and feelosophy." "Why, confound you, sir, again, what kind of doctrine is this?"
Indeed, throughout the village, although there were not a few landed proprietors in the neighbourhood whose lands came nearer, all of whom of course were lairds, and although the village itself had ceased to belong to the family, Glenwarlock was always called the laird; and the better part in the hearts of even the money-loving and money-trusting among its inhabitants, honoured him as the best man in the country, "thof he hed sae little skeel at haudin' his ain nest thegither;" and though, besides, there is scarce a money-making man who does not believe poverty the cousin, if not the child of fault; and the more unscrupulous, within the law, a man has been in making his money, the more he regards the man who seems to have lost the race he has won, as somehow or other to blame: "People with naught are naughty."
"Where did he go from here?" "How should I know? Think you that I can pass through a locked door of skeel?" the girl's tone was scornful. "Of that we do not know," said the officer. "Strange things have happened in the cell of your companion in the pits of Manator. Perhaps you could pass through a locked door of skeel as easily as he performs seemingly more impossible feats."
Between the two words was a perceptible pause. "I ain't shootin' nobody in the back. I never have yet, and I ain't beginnin' now, not for you or any other damn man." "Say " began Lanpher, threateningly. Alicran Skeel turned a grim face on his employer so suddenly and sharply that Lanpher almost dodged.
"And it wad far better become ye, Mr. Saddletree," continued his helpmate, "since ye say ye hae skeel o' the law, to try if ye can do onything for Effie Deans, puir thing, that's lying up in the tolbooth yonder, cauld, and hungry, and comfortless A servant lass of ours, Mr. Butler, and as innocent a lass, to my thinking, and as usefu' in the shop When Mr.
But maybe ye may like the ewe-milk, that is, the Buckholmside* cheese better; or maybe the gait-milk, as ye come frae the Highlands and I canna pretend just to the same skeel o' them; but my cousin Jean, that lives at Lockermachus in Lammermuir, I could speak to her, and "
He at once set out to make the long voyage to try to find some news of them or, if possible, to rescue them. The steamer on which Tom sailed was wrecked, and he and some sailors, together with a little boy, floated for some time on a derelict with which the Silver Star had collided. On the derelict, most unexpectedly, came Professor Skeel, who was on his way to Honolulu when the accident happened.
But I was gaun to tell your honour of ane that has mair skeel o' the gate than me, and that's e'en Madge Wildfire." "The devil she has! Do you think me as mad as she, is, to trust to her guidance on such an occasion?"
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