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"In troth did ye say sae, Allan," said the old Highlander, "and here's the fourth man coming clinking in at the yett e'en now from the stable, for he's shelled like a partan, wi' airn on back and breast, haunch and shanks. And am I to set her chair up near the Menteith's, or down wi' the honest gentlemen at the foot of the table?"
And Hope Drugg never did airn much more'n the salt in his johnny-cake in this store." Meanwhile she was helping herself to sugar and tea and flour and butter and other little "notions" for her own comfort.
It's a disgrace upon my character that learned ye! Here, stand up, out with your airn; ye shall walk no step beyond this place upon the road till ye can do yoursel' and me mair credit." "Alan," said I, "this is midsummer madness. Here is no time for fencing lessons." "I cannae well say no to that," he admitted. "But three times, man!
He had a routh o' auld nick-nackets, Rusty airn caps, and jinglin-jackets, Would held the Loudons three in tackets, A towmond gude; And parritch-pats, and auld sayt-backets, Afore the flude. Burns. After he had settled himself in his new apartments at Fairport, Mr. Lovel bethought him of paying the requested visit to his fellow-traveller.
At this rather pointed compliment the farmer's face glowed like a cider apple, and his smile seemed almost to reach to his ears. "I swan; but you're a peart chap. What wages do you git?" "Forty-five dollars a month." "Well, you airn it, you jist bet; but I was goin' to say that I orter speak of the roan mare, don't you think?" "Have you more than one horse that is of a roan color?" "No, sir."
You'll have all you earn to yourself, and can buy your own clothes, and can have your own hum, and be out ob de chains of slavery be a free man, tink ob dat! Cum, if you want to go, I'll help you to run away. "'Tank you, massa, sez I, 'but I'd rather stay, and hab ebery ting provided fur me, to trying to be free, and habbin' to dig like a dog to airn my living, an' den not half live.
Then she would give her a simball, and tell her she must "be a good girl, and not mind if she couldn't play jest like the others, for she'd got to airn her own livin', when she grew up, and she must learn to work." Ann would go away comforted, but grandma would be privately indignant.
Peg Nicholson was a good bay mare, As ever trod on airn; But now she's floating down the Nith, And past the mouth o' Cairn. My best compliments to Mrs. Nicol, and little Neddy, and all the family; I hope Ned is a good scholar, and will come out to gather nuts and apples with me next harvest. CXLIX. To MR. CUNNINGHAM, WRITER, EDINBURGH. ELLISLAND, 13th February 1790.
"I said right out to Is'iah, before a roomful o' the neighbors, that I expected it of him to git me home an' bury me when my time come, and do it respectable; but I wanted to airn my livin', if 'twas so I could, till then.
But now I heard a voice suddenly exclaim, "Where is the English stranger? It was he gave Rob Roy the knife to cut the belt." "Cleeve the pock-pudding to the chafts!" cried one voice. "Weize a brace of balls through his harn-pan!" said a second. "Drive three inches of cauld airn into his brisket!" shouted a third.
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