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A few minutes later the muskets, each of which had been carefully wrapped in well-oiled cloths, were brought on deck, taken out of their wrappings, well wiped, the nipples carefully tested with a pin, and loaded, the powder being measured out from a powder horn, a wad rammed down on top of it, with a bullet on top of that, and then another wad on top of all to keep the bullet in its place.
"Well, I happened to go to the basket this afternoon and take up a pair of stockings to mend. They felt amazingly heavy. There was a hard wad in them, and I wondered what it could be. I put in my hand and pulled out the watch. Yes, 'twas tucked right into the stockings." "I wonder we didn't any of us mistrust her at the time of it," said Mr. Templeton; "those magpies are dreadful thieves."
After a long pause: "And he wanted you to say something to you folks that wad save my young life?" said Effie. "He wanted," said Jeannie, "that I shuld be mansworn!" "And you tauld him," said Effie, "that ye wadna hear o' coming between me and death, and me no aughteen year auld yet?"
"It was a paraphrase," he answered, the smile still upon his face. "It was the twenty-sixth: "'Ho ye that thirst approach the spring Where living waters flow, an' Andra grat like a bairn: "'I haena heard it sin I ran barefit aboot the hills, he said, an' he wad hae me sing the lines ower again: "'How long to streams of false delight Will ye in crowds repair?
I piped it at the top of my voice, and sure enough the regiment took up the chorus, for it had a famous swing. "An' ye had been where I had been, Ye wad na be sae cantie, O; An' ye had seen what I ha'e seen' On the braes o' Killiecrankie, O." When their breath was gone we heard Cowan shout that he had found a path under his feet, a path that was on dry land in the summer-time.
Whae wad hae thought that young Milnwood and Cuddie Headrigg wad hae taen on wi' thae rebel blackguards?" "What do you mean by such improbable nonsense, Jenny?" said her young mistress, very much displeased.
Number Two drew from an outside coat-pocket a wad of common brown wrapping-paper, tore from it a small, neat parallelogram, dove into an opposite pocket for some loose smoking-tobacco, laid a pinch of it in the paper, and, with a single dexterous turn of the fingers, thumbs above, the rest beneath, it looks simple, but 'tis an amazing art, made a cigarette.
"You ken that I'm no' the wife you would have gotten nor the yin your folk would like you to get," she said, searching his face with a keen look. "I'm no' born in your class. I'm ignorant an' have not the fine manners your wife should have, an' I doot neither your faither nor your mither wad consent to such a thing." "But I won't ask them," he replied.
'I'll ask him one o' these days, but he might as well keep the money as me. This is a bottomless pit, he said, with bitterness. 'It could swallow a pound as quick as five shillings, an' never be kent. 'Ye're richt, Wat; but I wad advise ye to stick in to Skinny. He has siller, they say, an' maybe ye'll finger it some day.
"It is not her memory, it is herself I love," said the schoolmaster with trembling voice. "Tell me what you please: you may trust me." "Gien I needit you to tell me that, I wad trust ye as I wad the black dog wi' butter! Hearken, Sandy Graham."
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