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They hae ba's o' 't i' their feet, an' they canna get a grip wi' them, nae mair nor ye cud yersel', mem, gien the soles o' yer shune war roon' an' made o'ice. But we'll sune set that richt. Hoo far hae ye come, mem, gien I may speir? Aigh, mem, its an unco nicht!"
"Aigh! aigh!" he sighed at length, yielding the contest between his legs and the lungs of the lad "aigh! aigh! she'll die happy! she'll die happy! Hear till her poy, how he makes ta pipes speak ta true Gaelic! Ta pest o' Gaelic, tat! Old Tuncan's pipes 'll not know how to be talking Sassenach. See to it! see to it! He had put to blow in at ta one end, and out came ta reel at the other.
She had even let her thoughts go off to other things while Martha pondered and she wove in the cross-threads of her darn. "I wonder, Martha," she said now, suddenly, before attending to the new aspect of the board, "if I couldn't do without that muslin skirt I made to wear under my piña, and turn it into a couple of white waists to carry home to mother? If she goes away, you know" "Aigh!"
"Aigh, sirs! but it's a peety ye wasna foreordeent to be markis yersel'! It maun be a sair vex to ye 'at ye're naething but the factor." "If ye don't mind your manners, Mistress Fin'lay," said Mr Crathie in glowing indignation, "perhaps you'll find that the factor is as much as the marquis, when he's all there is for one." "Lord safe 's hear till 'im !" cried the Partaness.
Why don't you answer me? Aigh?" "A little," said Emarine. She went into the pantry, and presently returned with a narrow strip of muslin which she wound around her finger. "Well, I never see! You never will learn any gumption! Why don't you look what you're about? Now, go around Christmas with your finger all tied up!" "Oh, that'll be all right by to-morrow," said Mrs. Eliot, cheerfully.
He is a stranger here." "Ey knoas neawt abowt him, lort abbut, 'cept that he cum to Pendle a twalmont agoa," replied Ashbead; "boh ey knoas fu' weel that t'eawtcumbling felly robt me ot prettiest lass i' aw Lonkyshiar aigh, or i' aw Englondshiar, fo' t' matter o' that." "What manner of man is he?" inquired the abbot.
I am favored with a blessed peace of mind, and a very precious season of good feelin' toward my fellow-creturs." A lusty young fellow happened to make a quick step backward just at that instant, and put his heel, with his weight on top of it, upon the Deacon's toes. "Aigh!
I am favored with a blessed peace of mind, and a very precious season of good feelin' toward my fellow-creturs." A lusty young fellow happened to make a quick step backward just at that instant, and put his heel, with his weight on top of it, upon the Deacon's toes. "Aigh!
I am favored with a blessed peace of mind, and a very precious season of good feelin' toward my fellow-creturs." A lusty young fellow happened to make a quick step backward just at that instant, and put his heel, with his weight on top of it, upon the Deacon's toes. "Aigh!
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