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The change-house of the widow was on the ground-flat, a but and ben, the ceilings arched with stone a strange device in masonry you'll seldom find elsewhere, Highland or Lowland. But she had a garret-room up two stairs where properly she abode, the close flat being reserved for trade of vending uisgebeatha and ale.
Will you pe taking to him a trop of uisgebeatha?" "He taks naething o' that kin'," said Malcolm. He could not tell him that the madman, as men called him, lay wrestling in prayer with the Father of lights. The old highlander was not irreverent, but the thing would have been unintelligible to him.
I'm thinkin ye've had eneuch o' hingin' ower the fire this het mornin'." "No, sir," answered Duncan. "She'll pe perfectly able to make ta parritch herself, my poy Malcolm. Ta tay will tawn when her poy must make his own parritch, an' she'll be wantin' no more parritch, but haf to trink ta rainwater, and no trop of ta uisgebeatha to put into it, my poy Malcolm."
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