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"They wanted to get to you to have you drink the King's health with them, and when I swore you were asleep they ax't if you had no horses with you. I said you had one horse. 'One horse among two, they said, with a great goasteren laugh; 'why, then, they're Jock and his mither. 'One horse, I said, 'or maybe two. 'We must have 'em, they said; 'we take possession on 'em in the King's service.
"For fault of wise men fools sit on the bench, or we should hev none of this," continued Matthew. "I reckon some one that's here is nigh ax't oot by Auld Nick in the kirk of the nether world." "Then take care you're not there yourself to give something at the bridewain." Old Mathew grumbled something under his breath. There was a long silence. Ralph had rarely been heard to speak so bitterly.
This was not serious; but now came Sim's landlord. He had called on the tailor the previous morning for his rent and could not get it. Late the same night Sim had knocked at his door with the money. "When I ax't him where he'd come from so late," said the man, "he glower't at me daiztlike, and said nought." "What was his appearance?" "His claes were a' awry, and he keep't looking ahint him."
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