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There's a mune and a clear sky, and I'll hae the lave under thack and rape the morn. Syne I'm for Ninemileburn, and the coo 'ill be i' the byre by Setterday. Things micht be waur, and we'll warstle through yet. There was mair tint at Flodden." The last rays of October daylight that filtered through the straw lattice showed a woman's head on the pillow.
"There ye are at yer English again! an' misgugglin' Scriptur' wi' 't an' a' this upo' Setterday nicht maist the Sawbath day! Weel, I ha'e aye h'ard 'at Lon'on was an awfu' place, but I little thoucht the verra air o' 't wad sae sune turn an honest laad like Ma'colm MacPhail intill a scoffer. But maybe it's the markis o' 'im, an' no the muckle toon 'at's made the differ.
I maun jist lea' ye to him!" "Ye couldna dee a kinder thing! I desire naething better frae man or minister than be left to Him." "Weel, weel, see til yersel." "I'll see to him, and try to loe my neebour that's you, Mr. Pethrie. I'll hae yer shune ready by Setterday, sir. I trust they'll be worthy o' the feet that God made, and that hae to be shod by me.
I glanced at it casually. 'Aye, in gude time. Seein' that that paper cam' out last Setterday I'm just Sax days late. He picked it up, glanced at the superscription, and laid it down again. One of the others had been looking at my boots, and a word in German called the speaker's attention to them. 'You've a fine taste in boots, he said. 'These were never made by a country shoemaker.
Meantime Shargar was standing on the stones, looking like a terrified white rabbit, and shaking from head to foot with cold and fright combined. 'I'll tak him oot o' this, but it's up the stair, Betty. An' gin ye gang benn the hoose aboot it, I sweir to ye, as sure 's death, I'll gang doon to Muckledrum upo' Setterday i' the efternune. 'Gang awa' wi' yer havers.
And the siller a second round o' drinks wad ha' cost him went to his family and, sometimes, if the truth be known, one o' them that was no sae "mean" wad come aroond to see Wully at his shop. "Man, Wull," he'd say. "I'm awfu' short. Can ye no lend me the loan o' five bob till Setterday?" And he'd get the siller and not always be paying it back come Setterday, neither.
He found him not more than half-way towards his diurnal goal. "What's come o' you, bantam, this mony a day?" said Mr Cupples. "I saw ye last Saturday," said Alec. "Last Setterday week, ye mean," rejoined the librarian. "Hoo's the mathematics comin' on?" "To tell the truth, I'm raither ahin' wi' them," answered Alec. "I was thinkin' as muckle. Rainbows! Thae rainbows! And the anawtomy?"
Whan I was a callan, I took the play to mysel' for a week, or maybe twa, and gaed wi' a frien' i' the same trade's mysel', to see what was to be seen alang a screed o' the sea-coast, frae toon to toon. My compaingon wasna that gude at the traivellin'; and upo' the Setterday nicht, there we war in a public-hoose, and him no able to gang ae fit further, for sair heels and taes.
"'Fat's all the stushie? I asked them. They just leuch at me, and said they were hurryin' so they could hear Harry Lauder sing. They said he was the comic frae Glasga, and they asked me was I no gang wi' them tae the Toon Ha' to hear his concert. "'No, I says. 'All the siller in the hoose maun gang for the rent, and it's due on Setterday.
This is Setterday nicht, ye ken; an' gien it war to be Sunday mornin' afore ye wan to yer bed, it wadna be the first time, an' ye michtna be up ear eneuch to get yersel shaved afore kirk time."
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