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And sae he maun grin' awa', and whan Deith comes, he'll say, as Andrew Wylie did�-'Weel run, little wheelie! and tak' him awa' wi' him some gait or ither, whaur, maybe, he may mak' choice o' his ain machine for the neist trial." "That's some cauld doctrine, Mr Cupples," Alec would say.
"My room would do for grannie," he said to himself; "and I could sleep up there. A shake-down in the corner would do well enough for me." He climbed the ladder, pushed open the trap-door, crept half through, and surveyed the gloomy place. "There's no window but a skylight!" he said; and his eyes smarted as if the tears were about to rush into them. "What shall I do? Wheelie will be useless!
His father laughed with him, but his mother looked a little shocked. "No, Willie," said his father again; "you must make another attempt. You must say with Hamlet when he was puzzled for a plan 'About my brains! Perhaps they will suggest something wiser next time." Willie lay so long awake that night, thinking, that Wheelie pulled him before he had had a wink of sleep.
The miller rejoined: "You or me, Thomas, wad see bairnie an' wheelie alike safe, afore we liftit the sluice. The Lord micht hae managed ohn ta'en awa' my mull." "Yer mull's nae doon the water yet, Simon. It's in some extremity, I confess; but whether it's to be life or deith, none kens but ane. Gang hame, man, and gang doon upo' yer knees, and pray."
What wad ye think o' a bairn gaein' compleenin' o' you 'cause your backwater had ta'en awa' his wheelie o' rashes, whaur it was whurlin' bonnie afore ye liftit the sluice?" Thomas's zeal had exposed him to the discomfiture of those who, if they do not actually tell lies for God, yet use very bad arguments for him.
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