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"It's mair than me and Peter'll do, then," said Spens, who had been consulting with the other farmer. "We're gaun as straucht hame as the darkness 'll let us." With few more words the Session parted, Spens and Tosh setting off for their farms, and Hendry accompanying the precentor. No one will ever know where Dow went. I can fancy him, however, returning to the wood, and there drawing rein.
If Private M'Sumph, while being removed in custody, strikes Private Tosh upon the nose and kicks Private Cosh upon the shin, to the effusion of blood, no great harm is done except to the lacerated Cosh and Tosh; but if he had smitten an intruding officer in the eye, his punishment would have been dire and grim.
Private Tosh, on being confronted with his winter trousseau, observed bitterly "I jined the Airmy for tae be a sojer; but I doot they must have pit me doon as a mountain goat!" Still, though our variegated pelts cause us to resemble an unsuccessful compromise between Esau and an Eskimo, they keep our bodies warm. We wish we could say the same for our feet.
He just felt when he got out here himself that it would be a jolly thing for her to come too; it would do her good to cut everything all the mimsy tosh she'd been brought up in and hated to get out of it all just to do one splendid bunk. That, he said, was all it amounted to. We talked it over, sitting up in his little bedroom under the roof, the cheapest room in the hotel.
My mate who's workin' on munitions told me 'e saw 'underds o' soldiers rushin' to take shelter in the last raid on London. O' course there was crowds o' civvies doin' the same, but 'e says there was a lot what didn't seem to care a damn. The other day we 'ad a bloody parson spoutin' to us 'e said war brings out a man's pluck an' makes an 'ero of 'im. I reckon that's all bloody tosh!
Slowly reaching out her slender hand, she cries, with twitching lips, 'My brother! The trial ends." "Grandmother!" exploded the girl on the bed of sweet-grass. "Is this true?" "Tosh!" answered the grandmother, with a warmth in her voice. "It is all true.
"Should we no rather haud the meeting oursel's?" "We have other work afore us," replied the precentor. "But what can I say?" Tosh asked nervously, "Should I offer up a prayer?" "I warn you all," broke in Hendry, "that though the congregation is sitting there quietly, they'll be tigers for the meaning o' this as soon as they're in the street." "Let no ontruth be telled them," said the precentor.
One must prove herself worthy in order to retain that honorable name." "Ugh," retorts the first grandmother, "she can at least bear it on probation!" "Tosh, tosh," the other assents. Thus the unconscious little Winona has passed the first stage of the Indian's christening.
"Peter Tosh, do your duty. John Spens, remain wi' me." The church emptied silently, but a buzz of excitement arose outside. Many persons tried to enter the vestry, but were ordered away, and when Tosh joined his fellow-elders the people were collecting in animated groups in the square, or scattering through the wynds for news.
"Don't imagine for one moment," said young Horry, "that I agree with all that tosh he talked. But, after all, he's got a perfect right to make a fool of himself if he chooses. And he's my father." "I know. From first to last, Horry, you behaved beautifully." "Well, what would you do if your father made an unholy ass of himself in public?" "My father doesn't." "No, but if he did?"
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