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We were more fortunate than Sydney Smith, because Edinburgh has outgrown its odious smells, barbarous sounds, and bad suppers and, wonderful to relate, has kept its excellent hearts and its enlightened and cultivated understandings. As for mingled wut and dialectics, where can one find a better foundation for dinner-table conversation?

But this afternoon, or to-morrow morning anyway, I want to come down to Kerrigan's and call on you." "Wut about?" the boy demanded with an instant suspiciousness which was rather pathetic. "About you, Tommy. I have got a little plan in my head, and there isn't any time to talk about it now. What would you say to having a home with some nice people I know in another city in New York?"

'Come in, wut, cried Meshach impatiently from the hob, 'come in and let's be pecking a bit, and as Arthur and Hannah entered the parlour, he added: 'She's gotten sausages for you. She would get 'em, though I told her you'd take us as you found us. I told her that. But women well, you know what they are! Wut = wilt.

"I du believe in special ways O' prayin' an' convartin'; The bread comes back in many days, An' buttered, tu, for sartin; I mean in preyin' till one busts On wut the party chooses, An' in convartin' public trusts To very privit uses!"

An' what wut do when thy mother's gone, an' nobody to take care on thee as thee gett'st a bit o' victual comfortable i' the mornin'?" "What hast got i' thy mind, Mother?" said Adam, vexed at this whimpering. "I canna see what thee't driving at. Is there anything I could do for thee as I don't do?" "Aye, an' that there is.

"Perhaps, Sir Walter," interrupted Thackeray, "you would take the responsibility off our hands by yourself dictating the commencement of a story to this young literary aspirant." "Na, na!" cried Sir Walter; "I'll do my share, but there's Chairlie over there as full o' wut as a Radical's full o' treason. He's the laddie to give a cheery opening to it."

We made a fine passage down the Straits with a leading wind, finding our two late companions still cruising, having managed to get their whales aboard without mishap, and being somewhat inclined to chaff our old man for running in. He gave a wink full of wisdom, as he replied, "I'm pretty ole whale myself naouw; but I guess I ain't too old to learn; 'n wut I learn I'm goin' ter use. See?"

I cudna gang ohn hed a word wi' yersel', sir, to see whether ye wadna lat me bide wi' ye, sir. I haena muckle wut, they tell me, sir, but gien I michtna aye be able to du what ye tell't me to du, I cud aye haud ohn dune what ye tell't me no to." The words of the boy pleased Malcolm more than he judged it wise to manifest. He looked hard at Davy.

"I would have ye to know," said Macintosh, when the others had stopped laughing, "that a Scotchman is not deficient in wut, but he can't see it in mere nonsense." All this talk was not spoken right off the reel, as it reads, but at intervals, during pauses in the harder part of the work, and rests.

"Tak yer brakfast, John," said his sister. "Lat them tak 'at hungers," he answered. "Tak, or ye'll no hae the wut to save," said Jean. Thereupon he fell to, and ate, if not with appetite, then with a will that was wondrous. The flood still grew, and still the rain poured, and Gibbie did not come.