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His thoughts were perhaps with the battle, for presently he looked up, and murmured the verse: "I had a dream, a weary dream, Ayont the Isle of Skye; I saw a dead man win a fight, And I think that man was I." That stave keeps ringing in my brain; nor can I tell where or when I have heard it.
"It's yer ain dog, my lord," said the bailiff, whatever consolation there might be in the assurance, as he took him by the collar. "Am I to be worriet 'cause the dog's my ain? Haud him the sickerer. He s' be ayont mischeef the morn!"
To this some smug, practical old sinner would remark: "Aye, it's a peety, as ye say, to kill the bonnie things, but they were made to be killed, and sent for us to eat as the quails were sent to God's chosen people, the Israelites, when they were starving in the desert ayont the Red Sea. And I must confess that meat was never put up in neater, handsomer-painted packages."
I did it masel' a wee while. That's what I telt Tam, an' I pinted oot the difference atween you an' the elders. I said as hoo ye wad hae pickit oot the auld buddy first But to think ma ain een saw ye comin' ben the taivern ayont twal o'clock at nicht." With such varied discourse did Geordie beguile our homeward way, which at last brought us to his dwelling-place.
"As far 's I can gang wi' a clean conscience, I'll gang, no ae step ayont," said Malcolm. "You mean to say your judgment is a safer guide than mine?" "No, my lord; I micht weel follow yer lordship's jeedgment, but gien there be a conscience i' the affair, it's my ain conscience I'm bun' to follow, an' no yer lordship's, or ony ither man's.
You, he, and the noble Colonel of the Crochallan Fencibles are to me Dear as the ruddy drops which warm my heart. I have got a good mind to make verses on you all, to the tune of "Three guid fellows ayont the glen" MAUCHLINE, 21st May 1789.
Whaur, think ye, wad the sma' things ye wantit for my mother hae come frae, gien I hadna happent to hae that property left? We're weel taen care o', ye see, Grizzie! That WAD hae tried my faith, to hae my mother gang wi'oot things! But he never suffers us to be tried ayont what we're able to beir; an' sae lang as my faith hauds the grup, I carena for back nor belly!
Will he be going ayont seas to be sold in the tobacco plantations or off in a ship to Botany Bay? I tell you the keel is not laid, and the mast is not out of the acorn that will carry away Stair Garland. And as to hanging him faith, they will need all their forces back from the wars before they could do siccan a thing in Galloway!"
But what kind of a crime would this be that I had committed? or what kind of a process is this that I am fallen under? "I canna gainsay ye, Shaws. It looks unco under-hand," says Andie. "And werena the folk guid sound Whigs and true-blue Presbyterians I would hae seen them ayont Jordan and Jeroozlem or I would have set hand to it."
As for the cobbler, he was "over the hills ayont Dumblane," and it's thought that poor Scotland will have to console herself without him. I drank Catriona's health this night in public. Indeed, the whole town admires her; and I think the beaux would wear bits of her garters in their button-holes if they could only get them.
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