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He was once examined before a Committee of the House of Commons, and came to be questioned on the subject of his ownership of sheep. "You may have some 1500 sheep, probably, sir?" quoth the interrogating M.P. "Aiblins," was Corrichollie's quiet reply as he took a pinch of snuff; "aiblins I have a few more nor that." "Two thousand, then?"
"Weel may I want to save ye, bairn," added the Highlander tenderly, "for it was the thocht of a' ye riskit for the like of me at the three roads that made me consider wi' mysel' that I've aiblins been turning my back a' my wilfu' life on love that's bigger than a man's deservings. It's near done now, and it'll never lie in my poor power so much as rightly to thank ye.
He could understand the talk of the martins under the eaves, the mice in the meal- tub and the beasts of burden in the stables, when they conversed among themselves. "Aiblins that's what gar'd him grow sae unco wise," David ended.
"It's dootless a bonnie place about the abbey," said he, "but naething like what it was when the great Sir James the Rose came to hide i' the Buchan woods wi' a' the Grahames rampagin' at his tail, whilk you that's a beuk-learned man 'ill hae read o', an' may be ye'll hae heard o' the saughen bush where he forgathered wi' his jo; or aiblins ye may have seen 't, for it's standing yet just at the corner o' gaukit Jamie Jamieson's peat-stack.
David was growing of late accustomed to these fits of silent, unprovoked merriment; and when his father began giggling and muttering to Red Wull, at first he paid no heed. "He! he! Wullie. Aiblins we'll beat him yet. There's many a slip twixt Cup and lip eh, Wullie, he! he!" And he made allusion to the flourishing of the wicked and their fall; ending always with the same refrain: "He! he! Wullie.
I askit that same o' Rab Burns ance; an' he said, puir chiel, he 'didna ken ower well, we maun bide and see'; bide and see that's the gran' philosophy o' life, after a'. Aiblins folk'll ken their true freens there; an' there'll be na mair luve coft and sauld for siller "Gear and tocher is needit nane I' the country whaur my luve is gane.
'It's either the storm, or aiblins a ghaist, or else some one's playin' tricks on baith o' us. 'Did ye no place this bit paper i' my room? inquired his guest wrathfully, holding up a document with his hand accusingly. 'What bit paper is 't? inquired the Minister. 'I hae pit nae bit paper i' your room. 'Did Dr.
You could hae taen your Bible oath sometimes, when you were readin him, that he had a sowl a human sowl a sowl to be saved but then, heaven preserve us! in the verra middle aiblins o' a paragraph, he grew transformed afore your verra face into something bestial, you heard a grunt that made ye grue, and there was an ill smell in the room, as frae a pluff o' sulphur. April, 1827. Shepherd.
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