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I's sossy," she continued, looking full at Mother Rodesia as she spoke, "that you big, big woman told such awfu' lies. But, now that we has come, we'll take a little hare soup. Orion, you stand near me, and don't any of you dirty peoples come up too close, 'cos I can't abear dirty peoples. I is the gweatest shot in all the world, and Orion, he's a giant."
'Miss Tod canna hear us, can she? 'Ye never can tell what a spinster'll hear when she's interested. At present she's nourishin' hersel' on tea her nineteenth cup for the day; but she'll be comin' shortly to embrace ye an' shut the shop. I micht as weel get on ma hat. . . . An' 'what did yer parents say to ye? 'They said ye was an awfu' nice, clever, bonny, handsome lassie 'Tit, tit!
"He was ahint the skerry when we were in the geo, and heard a'." "I might have guessed as much if I had not been an ass," Yaspard exclaimed. "I might have known that Pirate would only obey one of us from Moolapund." "Was the Laird awfu' angry?" Gibbie asked. "Yes, he was; but when I tell'd him as weel as I could hoo it a' cam aboot, and hoo lonesome Mr.
"Noo, my lord," he said, half closing the book, "what wad ye expec' to come upo', efter sic a denunciation as that, but some awfu' haithenish thing? Weel, jist hearken again, for here's the verra prayer itsel' in a futnote." His lordship had thrown himself into a chair, had crossed one leg over the other, and was now stroking its knee.
'Up yer sleeve, as a rule, said Macgregor very solemnly. 'Guid Goad! I'll pass the cream cookies. 'But they're awfu' tasty. 'Are they? . . . Weel, what dae ye dae if it bursts? 'Never let bug. 'Ay, but but what aboot the cream? 'Best cairry an extra hanky an' plug yer sleeve wi' it.
They pushed their way through the hole and found themselves in a clover field. The clover, slightly wet with dew, felt very refreshing to their hot little feet. "Isn't this 'licious?" said Diana. "Let's lie down on the g'een g'ass; let's s'eep here; I's awfu' s'eepy." "It's very near the circus," said Orion. "I'm rather frightened for fear Uncle Ben will find us."
Water's an awfu' thing to rot ye'r boots; I aye said if it rotted ane's boots that way, whit wad it no' dae to ane's stamach? Oh, sirs! sirs! this is becomin' the throng hoose, wi' comin's and goin's and raps and roars and collie-shangies o' a' kin's. If it wasna me was the canny gaird o't it's Himsel' wad hae to flit for the sake o' his nicht's sleep."
Ye change, of coorse, but yir branch 'll hae a lang wait the day. It 'll be an awfu' fecht wi' the Hielant train. Muirtown platform 'll be worth seein'; it 'll juist be michty," and the collector departed, smacking his lips in prospect of the fray.
Ye maun ken, hinnies, that this Roland Cheyne, for as poor and auld as I sit in the chimney-neuk, was my forbear, and an awfu' man he was that dayin the fight, but specially after the Earl had fa'en, for he blamed himsell for the counsel he gave, to fight before Mar came up wi' Mearns, and Aberdeen, and Angus."
In due course the blankets emerge, steamed, dried, and thoroughly purged. At least, that is the idea. But listen to Privates Ogg and Hogg, in one of their celebrated cross-talk duologues. "They're a' there yet. See!" "Aye; but they must have gotten an awfu' fricht!" But then people like Ogg are never satisfied with anything. However, the feature of this camp is the mud.
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