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Dost thee object to that, lass? if so, say so noo afore it's too late, but doon't thraw it in moi face arterwards. Ef thou'st children they shalt go to school too. Oi don't want to do more for Polly nor oi'd do for moi own." "I ha' no objection, Luke. I remembers your sister, how pretty and quiet she wor; and thou shalt do what you likest wi' Polly, wi'out no grumble from me."
"They say he is about to marry the daughter of Leddy Ashton; and let her leddyship get his head ance under her oxter, and see you if she winna gie his neck a thraw. Sorra a bit, if I were him! Let her alane for hauding a'thing in het water that draws near her.
"Dinna thraw till I get a grip," cried Andrew, as the stranger had him already lifted from his feet "that's no fair it's no our country way o' thrawing." The request was granted, and only granted, when Andrew measured his length upon the ground, and his dog sprang forward to attack the victor. "Get back, Cæsar!" shouted its master "It was a fair fa', I canna deny it!
"Mak haste, sirs," cried the paralytic hag from the cottage, "and let us do what is needfu', and say what is fitting; for, if the dead corpse binna straughted, it will girn and thraw, and that will fear the best o' us." Ravenswood was now out of hearing.
Now, sir, I looked about all the day in the crowd, just to see if I could clap my een on ye, and to ask ye, in a friendly way, if ye would let me try what sort o' stuff ye are made o', but I couldna fall in wi' ye; and now I'm really glad that I hae met wi' ye and as this is a gay level place here, and the ground is not very hard, what do ye say if we try a thraw, in a neighbourly way; and after that, we can cut a bit branch frae ane o' the allers, for a cudgelling bout.
'I seldom ban, sir, said he to the man; 'but if you play any of your hound's-foot tricks, and leave puir Berwick before he's sorted, to rin after spuilzie, deil be wi' me if I do not give your craig a thraw. He then stroked with great complacency the animal which had borne him through the fatigues of the day, and having taken a tender leave of him Weel, my good young friends, a glorious and decisive victory, said he; 'but these loons of troopers fled ower soon.
The lapwing escaped unhurt, and flew screaming into the air, but Selta held to the hawk till we ran up and helped her. I managed to secure the bird's wings, which flapped about with surprising strength, while Tom held its struggling legs. "Thraw its neck, thraw its neck!" cried Rosson, now coming up to us.
One day a stranger came to the house and asked: 'Is Mr. McNeil at home? "'No, says Christie; 'the gude man is away. "'That's a pity; for I hear that McNeil is a very strong man, and a great wrestler; and I've come a very long distance to throw him. "'Troth, man, says she, 'Johnny is gone. But I'm not the woman to see ye disappointed, and I think if ye'll try me, I'll thraw ye myself.
He's easy wi' a' body that will be easy wi' him; but if ye thraw him, ye had better thraw the deevil." "And by his exploits in these vocations," I continued, "I suppose he has rendered himself amenable to the laws of the country?" "Amenable? ye may say that; his craig wad ken the weight o' his hurdies if they could get haud o' Rob.
He's easy wi' a' body that will be easy wi' him; but if ye thraw him, ye had better thraw the deevil." "And by his exploits in these vocations," I continued, "I suppose he has rendered himself amenable to the laws of the country?" "Amenable? ye may say that; his craig wad ken the weight o' his hurdies if they could get haud o' Rob.
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