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Tak the peerie stone, see, and have a care that ye dinna lose it;" and she handed to me the little black stone. Mr. Drever was standing beside her, and I looked to him to ask if I should take possession of this much of the viking's treasure. "Take it, take it, Halcro," he said. "There can be no harm in your keeping it at least until we find whether the authorities claim it or not.
"Guid Lord!" thought Mungo, setting the scanty table. "It's clear she hasna steeked an e'e a' nicht, and me sleepin' like a peerie. That's ane o' the advantages o' being ower the uneasy age o' love and still I'm no' that auld. I wonder if she's rued it the day already."
Yea, yea! puir Tammy and his pate-keschie does mair for ill-luckit, wandering sea-folk than does the muckle kirk and the peerie queen pit together. And, though I say it that shouldna, puir Tammy kens when tae wake and when tae sleep better than them that has their heads fu' o' brains and books forby."
Yaspard was, and hoo he had heard a' about wis o' Lunda and wir ploys and vaidges, and hoo he wanted tae hae the like too; weel, the Laird o' Boden mused like upo' what I said; and then he took oot his pocketbook and wrate a peerie letter wi' his pencil. And then he bade me come inta the dingy, and I was tae row ower tae Lunda wi' him.
Meantime Shargar had rushed across the next street on his bare feet into the Crookit Wynd, terrifying poor old Kirstan Peerie, the divisions betwixt the compartments of whose memory had broken down, into the exclamation to her next neighbour, Tam Rhin, with whom she was trying to gossip: 'Eh, Tammas! that'll be ane o' the slauchtert at Culloden.
If it werena for his goodwife, he'd never open the Scriptures. Ay, but it's a lang while he'll be preachin' any good into yon blackguard son o' his. There's not a house of harder hearts in all the Mainland than Crua Breck. They all take after Carver; ilka body o' them, except peerie Thora." "Yes," I said feelingly, "Thora's kinder than all the rest." "Kinder! Ay is she.
He was leaning over the ruin, looking up at a window in the angle of the wall, and when the others reached him he said in tones of fear, "Look! there is a light in the haunted room!" A basket. "Raiding-strake," the final blow which clears up everything. "Peerie," little.
"It's a pretty peerie holme," Signy remarked. "I like the little morsel of green turf on top. I wonder how it ever manages to grow there, for the skerry must be swept by the sea more often than not." "There's something white on it," Yaspard exclaimed, "something white and moving. Why, goodness me!" and he stood up in great excitement, "it is awfully like a person."
Well, well, the pigs were on the roadside at Hector's, and they kent the barefit lassies; but the grand lady they didna ken at all, and one caught her gown by the braidin' and scattered away reivin' and tearin', and set the lady spinning like a peerie, and the lassies laughed and cried 'suckie, suckie, and put on their boots to go into the kirk, well put on, and in a rale godly frame o' mind."
My father took his pipe out of his mouth and looked inquisitively at Billy. "M' head's spinnin' 'round like a peerie!" he exclaimed. "Whin did ye ate aanything?" asked the sweep. "Yestherday." "Aye, well, it's th' mate ye haaven't in yer bowels that's makin' ye feel quare." "What's th' matther wi th' invintor?" Anna asked. Billy had removed his pipe and was staring vacantly into space.
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