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I'll pit these twa blankets oot in the sun, in some place where the dooks frae the pond will no get dandering ower them. And if you'll sorrt your books, I'll hand ower the yins ye dinna require to the Y.M.C.A. hut ayont the village."
If Macgregor was disposed to be over-credulous, his friend Willie was sceptical enough for two. 'I hear we're for the Dardanelles next week, the former observed one afternoon. Willie snorted. 'What the wud they send us yins to the Dardanelles afore we ken hoo to fire a rifle? 'I heard it for a fac', Macgregor returned imperturbably. 'They want us yins for begnet wark, no for snipin'.
At the farther end, in a fissure of the rock, were stones regularly built up, the rem Yins of a larger fire, and what the hunter did not doubt was the smelting furnace of the Spaniards. He poked about in the ashes, but found no silver. That had all been carried away.
At the farther end, in a fissure of the rock, were stones regularly built up, the rem Yins of a larger fire, and what the hunter did not doubt was the smelting furnace of the Spaniards. He poked about in the ashes, but found no silver. That had all been carried away.
"How big was yours?" asked Mac, and I could see he was angry wi' himself. Do ye mind the game the wee yins play, of noughts and crosses? Whoever draws three noughts or three crosses in a line wins, and sometimes it's for lettin' the other have last crack that ye lose. Weel, it was like a child who sees he's beaten himself in that game that Mac looked then. "How big was mine, Mac?" I said.
For it's in your heart and mine that we'll find the makings of the bonnier world I can see, for a' the pain. Let's stop together and think a bit. We were happy, many of us, in yon days before the war. Our loved yins were wi' us. There was peace i' a' the world. We had no thought that any wind could come blowing frae ootside ourselves that would cast down the hoose of our happiness. Wasna that sae?
At the farther end, in a fissure of the rock, were stones regularly built up, the rem Yins of a larger fire, and what the hunter did not doubt was the smelting furnace of the Spaniards. He poked about in the ashes, but found no silver. That had all been carried away.
Her father and mother had indeed all along been doubtful about the propriety of marrying their daughter into a family so much above them as the Yins, and for a long time they had stood out against all the arguments in favour of it.
'Bad yins, was Sim's emphatic answer. All day the dogs were kept unsparingly on the alert, and the drove pushed forward at a very unusual and seemingly unwelcome speed. All day Sim and Candlish, with a more than ordinary expenditure both of snuff and of words, continued to debate the position.
Here an ancient, bearded shepherd an elder of the kirk with a tongue of caustic, Ringan by name, who was sitting behind the Minister, winked derisively at the company and muttered sotto voce, 'He's forgot aal the little yins.
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