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"Hae nane o' ye ony spunk?" said Christie, taking no notice of the woman. "Speak, laddies!" "M' uncle's yawl is at the pier-head; ye'll get her, my woman," said a boy. "A schell'n for wha's first on board," said Christie, holding up the coin. "Come awa', Flucker, we'll hae her schell'n;" and these two worthies instantly effected a false start.
"Aweel, there's Jess Rutherford, a widdy, wi' four bairns, ye meicht do waur than ware your siller on her." "Five pounds to begin?" inquired his lordship. "Five pund! Are ye made o' siller? Ten schell'n!" Saunders was rung for, and produced a one-pound note. "The herrin' is five and saxpence; it's four and saxpence I'm awin ye," said the young fishwife, "and Jess will be a glad woman the neicht."
"For a'," said he, "I begin to obsairve it is a work of great merit. I'll seek twenty pund, an' I'll no tak less than fifteen schell'n, at present." The visit of this routine painter did not cheer our artist. The small child got a coal and pounded the floor with it like a machine incapable of fatigue. So the wished-for pose seemed more remote than ever.
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