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"And what d'ye ca' an untruth?" said Effie, again showing a touch of her former spirit "Ye are muckle to blame, lass, if ye think a mother would, or could, murder her ain bairn Murder! I wad hae laid down my life just to see a blink o' its ee!" "I do believe," said Jeanie, "that ye are as innocent of sic a purpose as the new-born babe itsell."

"Are ye a triple man, friend, that ye press forward sae bauldly? I'm thinking no, for there's nae Catholics wear that badge." "Na, na, I am no a Roman," said Edie. "Then shank yoursell awa to the double folk, or single folk, that's the Episcopals or Presbyterians yonder: it's a shame to see a heretic hae sic a lang white beard, that would do credit to a hermit."

I find him a little more temperate and considerate in his enterprises than Alexander, for this man seems to seek and run headlong upon dangers like an impetuous torrent which attacks and rushes against everything it meets, without choice or discretion; "Sic tauriformis volvitur Aufidus; Qui regna Dauni perfluit Appuli, Dum saevit, horrendamque cultis Diluviem meditatur agris;"

"I'm sorry for that," answered the postmistress, gravely; "it's like we maun wait then till the gudeman comes hame, after a' for I wadna like to be responsible in trusting the letter to sic a callant as Jock our Davie belangs in a manner to the office." "Aweel, aweel, Mrs. Mailsetter, I see what ye wad be at but an ye like to risk the bairn, I'll risk the beast." Orders were accordingly given.

'Before the lave of them, but not with sweet Meg herself. 'Our sister behoves to have learnt what suits her station, and winna bide sic ways from an ower forward sister. Dinna put us all to shame, and make the folk trow we came from some selvage land, said Jean, tossing her head. 'Hast ever seen me carry myself unworthy of King James's daughter? proudly demanded Eleanor.

"Well," said the old man, "I suppose I am not going to hurt ye, for the master won't have anything hurt; so come along, Boxer; and dinna ye be fetchin' a chiel oot o' bed at sic a time o' nicht again, or ye may e'en stop i' the water." And then the old gardener went off to his cottage; and Boxer, after a run back and a scamper round the rescued hedgehog, went to his kennel.

"It's a bonny thing," she said, "Monkbarns, and, I dare say, a valuable; but it's out o'my way ye ken I am nae judge o' sic matters."

"And what d'ye ca' an untruth?" said Effie, again showing a touch of her former spirit "Ye are muckle to blame, lass, if ye think a mother would, or could, murder her ain bairn Murder! I wad hae laid down my life just to see a blink o' its ee!" "I do believe," said Jeanie, "that ye are as innocent of sic a purpose as the new-born babe itsell."

When I expressed my conviction that even the most experienced hearer was helpless in such circumstances, Elspeth rallied, and gave me to understand that she had saved some fragments from the wreckage. "A'll juist tell ye the hale hypothic, for sic a discoorse ye may never hear a' the days o' yir life.

But I ken what Sir Thomas wants very weel it was just sic and siclike about the seat in the kirk o' Kilmagirdle was I not entitled to have the front gallery facing the minister, rather than Mac-Crosskie of Creochstone, the son of Deacon Mac-Crosskie, the Dumfries weaver? Mannering expressed his acquiescence in the justice of these various complaints. 'And then, Mr.