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What an example their conduct and conversation was at my sober hearth I need not attempt to describe. For some days they rampaged as if we had been barbarians, and the best in the house was not good enough for their ravenous wastrie; but I was resolved to keep a uniform and steady abstinence from all cause of offence.
"Well, be sure and go into one of the tents, and have a good dinner." "'Deed, mem, I'll do naething o' the sort. It's a sin and a shame to waste gude siller upo' broth an' beef. I can bide onything but wastrie." "It's very foolish of you, James." "It's yer pleesur to say sae, mem." "Well, tell me what to do about that." And she handed him the letter. James took it and read it slowly.
It was in this year that the great smuggling trade corrupted all the west coast, especially the laigh lands about the Troon and the Loans. The tea was going like the chaff, the brandy like well- water, and the wastrie of all things was terrible.
"I did not take quite kindly to the porridge at first, and missed the meat that we used to have in such abundance; but use is second nature, and though I whiles look back with regret to the flesh-pots of Egypt, I have my strength, and I have some prospect of getting back to the land of wastrie and extravagance, as I aye used to say it was at Barragong; and Mr.
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