United States or Palau ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
And the bodies watched him. "Faith, he's keen," said the Provost. "But what on earth has Wilson ta'en auld Jamieson's house and barn for? They have stude empty since I kenna whan," quoth Alexander Toddle, forgetting his English in surprise. "They say he means to start a business! He's made some bawbees in Aiberdeen, they're telling me, and he thinks he'll set Barbie in a lowe wi't."
At the time of the stoppage, however, we saw that commercial prosperity, flush as it might be, was but a perishable commodity, and from thence, both by public discourse and private exhortation, I have recommended to the workmen to lay up something for a reverse; and showed that, by doing with their bawbees and pennies what the great do with their pounds, they might in time get a pose to help them in the day of need.
"Ye can see our hoose frae't canna ye?" "Ay." "Weel, ye jist buy a twa three blue lichts. Hae ye ony bawbees?" "Deil ane, General." "Hae than, there's fower an' a bawbee for expenses o' the war." "Thank ye, General." "Ye hae an auld gun, haena' ye?" "Ay have I; but she's nearhan' the rivin'." "Load her to the mou', and lat her rive. We'll may be hear't. But haud weel oot ower frae her.
Toddle assured him grandly, shaking his head as who should conduct of that kind a thousand miles off "nut me, Post! I'll no breathe it to a living soul." The post clattered in to Mrs. Gourlay's back door. He had a heavy under-stamped letter on which there was threepence to pay. He might pick up an item or two while she was getting him the bawbees. He knocked, but there was no answer.
Plaistow, as usual, had made the tale of her winnings sixpence in excess of what anybody else considered was due to her. The sound of that was so familiar that nobody looked up or asked what was going on. "Darling Diva and her bawbees, Padre," said Miss Mapp in an aside. "So modest in her demands. Oh, she's stopped! Somebody has given her sixpence. Not another rubber?
Come wi' me, Tom; mebbe she has a friend." "Nay," replied Tom, "I doan't feel like skylarking with the lasses to-night." "Weel, I'm not ower particular mysel', but I have not much siller. Three bawbees will have to last me till Saturday, otherwise I'd be asking ye to come and have a drop of whisky wi' me." "I am stony-broke too," said Tom. "I expect I have been a fool."
Word Of The Day