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"Then you'll stay here," I whispered. "Yass, sih, ef de Lawd wil' I mean ef you wants me, sih yass, sih, thaynk you, sih. I loves to tend on Mis' Fontenette, she got sich a bu'ful fa aith, same like she say I got. Yass, sih, I dess loves to set an' watch her wid dat sweet samtimonious fa-ace."
"Ye're some ready wi' yer aith, Mirran, to what ye ken naething aboot! I say again, gien he's dene ony wrang to that bonnie cratur and it wudna tak ower muckle proof to convince me o' the same, he s' tak his stan', minister or no minister, upo the stele o' repentance!"
I could take my aith to that sneeshing-mull amang a thousand I carried it for mony a year, till I niffered it for this tin ane wi' auld George Glen, the dammer and sinker, when he took a fancy till't doun at Glen-Withershins yonder." "Ay! indeed?" said Oldbuck; "so you exchanged it with a miner? but I presume you never saw it so well filled before" and opening it, he showed the coins.
'Have ye gotten the billet, Francie said she; and when he had handed it over, and she had read and burned it, 'Did you see anybody? she asked. 'I saw the laird, said Francie. 'He didna see you, though? asked his mother. 'Deil a fear, from Francie. 'Francie! she cried. 'What's that I hear? an aith? The Lord forgive me, have I broughten forth a brand for the burning, a fagot for hell-fire?
Hanoteau, Poèmes Populaires de la Khabyle, pp. 179-181, Du Jurgura. This song, composed by Mohammed Said or Aihel Hadji, is still repeated when one wishes to insult persons from Aith Erbah, who have tried several times to assassinate the poet in revenge. Sometimes two rival singers find themselves together, and each begins to eulogize himself, which eulogy ends in a satire on the other.
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