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Updated: May 18, 2025
To go breaking into houses with swords and staves, and firing off powder and shot all to frighten a pair of poor bairns! Certes, but I would have sorted them to rights with tongue, aye, and with arm also."
I've said before, and I'll say again, the childless married pair are traitors to their country, to the world, to humanity. Is it that folk wi' children find it harder to live? Weel, there's truth i' that, and it's for us a' tae see that that shall no be so. I ken there are things that discourage them that would bring up a family o' bairns.
When the boy ventured to ask a question about where he was, or when he would return, she always replied 'Bairns suld haud their tongues. Nor would she vouchsafe another answer to any question that seemed to her from the farthest distance to bear down upon that subject. 'Bairns maun learn to haud their tongues, was the sole variation of which the response admitted.
Now, if you were my wife, I could protect you; and he flourished the arm I had given the bang to and a goodly arm it was. "I told him about the bairns, and he just laughed at me. 'We'll see, says he. 'We'll see. Wait a little.
She took him for her lord, and with a leal heart and a loving bosom she ever recognized him as her head and master, as the pole-star to which she must turn, compelled by laws of adamant. Worthy or unworthy, he was all that she expected, all that she desired, bone of her bone, flesh of her flesh, the father of her bairns, the lord of her bosom, the staff of her maintenance, the prop of her house.
"Thank ye thank ye thank ye," reiterated M'Aulay; "and as they are to spend the money in the King's service, what signifies whether you, they, or I pay it? we are a' one man's bairns, I hope?
So she loitered on the road, though the sun had set and she knew there was danger of the cows passing the gate and getting in among the wheat, where the fence was insufficient, in the field below. "I don't care," she said to herself. "It winna be my fault. The bairns should have been at home. It's their work, not mine, to mind the cows. Oh, I wist Effie was at home!
In all the town not one building that connoted to Warble the apotheosis of efficiency shown by the King Alfred tossing cakes in the window of Bairns' Restaurant. Not a dozen buildings that even suggested use in addition to their beauty. And the street was cluttered with trees in tubs, window boxes, sudden little fountains or statues; gilded wicker birdcages on tall poles songs issuing therefrom.
And there were houses, too; and if they were not biggit with stane and lime, and lofted like the houses at Croftangry, yet they served the purpose of them that lived there, and mony a braw bonnet, and mony a silk snood and comely white curch, would come out to gang to kirk or chapel on the Lord's day, and little bairns toddling after.
And as for the children why, as far as the Baltic shore and the land of the last Ritters, mothers frightened their bairns with the Black Duke of the Wolfsberg and his Red Axe. So now the Duke and the Red Axe were to be in conference as indeed had happened nearly every day and night since I could remember.
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