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Ay, an' what'a more oh, God of heaven, bless him! what's more, the Colonel is to stock it for us, an' to help us; an' what is more, Yallow Sam is out! out!!" "Out!" they exclaimed: "Jemmy well, an' Yallow Sam out! Oh, father, surely" "Now behave, I say. Ay, and never to come in again! But who do you think got him out?" "Who? why God he knows. Who could get him out?"
She kent aboot Sandy's fairntickles afore, of coorse, an' Sandy's yallow fizog didna pet her aboot. "Juist hover a blink," says I, "till I see if I come to mysel'." I sat doon in the easy-chair, an' Sandy was in a terriple wey aboot me. He cudna speak a wird, but juist keepit sayin', "O dinna dee, Bawbie, dinna dee; your denner's ready!"
"And just imagine," she went on, "what a misery it must be to a widowed mother, poor companion as he would be at the best, to think of her boy roaming the country like a beggar! sleeping she doesn't know where! eating wretched food! and " "Guid parritch an' milk, an' brose an' butter," said Malcolm parenthetically; " whiles herrin' an' yallow haddies." "It's enough to break a mother's heart!
Howiver, if Tom's to go to a new school, I should like him to go where I can wash him and mend him; else he might as well have calico as linen, for they'd be one as yallow as th' other before they'd been washed half-a-dozen times.
We soon got into poverty after we left your farm; and another thing, sir, there was no Latin school in our neighborhood." "For what purpose did you become a poor scholar?" "Why, sir, I hoped one day or other to be able to raise my father and mother out of the distress that Yallow Sam brought on us." "By Heaven! a noble aim, and a noble sentiment.
"I would rather change his punishment to I would that is if it would be agreeable to you It's this, sir I wouldn't throuble you now against the master, if you'd be pleased to rightify my father, and punish Yallow Sam. Oh, sir, for God's sake, put my heart-broken father into his farm again! If you would, sir, I could shed my blood, or lay down my life for you, or for any belonging to you.
'They cannot tell when or how to make an end, being women in whom all kind of curiosity is to be seen in far greater measure than in women of higher calling. I might name hues devised for the nonce, ver d'oye 'twixt green and yallow, peas-porridge tawny, popinjay blue, and the Devil-in-the-head.
M., an' you goin' up the street wid a cake of it in your fists, undher your shabby skirts; an' whin the gintlemen wint to shake hands wid you, how he discovered your maneness? Three groans for Yallow Sam, the extortioner! a short coorse to him! Your corner's warm for you, you villain!" "But now, boys, for the Colonel!" they exclaimed.
"Well, sir, tell her as I have saved a heap of money for her out'n the presents the gemmen made me o' Christmas, and I'll bring it to her when I come down which the ole 'oman do love money, sir, better than she do anything in this world, 'cept it is me and old marster and Miss Claudia. And likewise what she wants me to bring her from town, and whether she would like a red gownd or a yallow one."
My father, sir, threatened to tell you about it, and you came to the country soon after; but Yallow Sam got very great wid my father at that time, and sent him to sell bullocks for him about fifty miles off, but when he come back again, you had left the country.
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