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Updated: June 24, 2025
Yes, yes, child, says she, 'fear it not; how were we nursed ourselves? Are you sure you was nursed up by your own mother? and yet you look fat and fair, child, says the old beldam; and with that she stroked me over the face.
"Troth, in one sense, if it please your honour, I serve twa masters," said Richie; "for both my master and me are slaves to that same beldam, whom we thought to show our heels to by coming off from Scotland. So that you see, sir, I hold in a sort of black ward tenure, as we call it in our country, being the servant of a servant."
However, I was so diverted with this old beldam and her magnificence, that I made this epitaph for her: Four times the nuptial bed she warm'd, And every time so well perform'd, That when death spoil'd each husband's billing, He left the widow every shilling. Fond was the dame, but not dejected; Five stately mansions she erected With more than royal pomp, to vary The prison of her captive Mary.
But the beldam foresaw the difficulty. "Hold thou the pipe, my precious one," said she, "while I fill it for thee again." It was sorrowful to behold how the fine gentleman began to fade back into a scarecrow while Mother Rigby shook the ashes out of the pipe and proceeded to replenish it from her tobacco-box. "Dickon," cried she, in her high, sharp tone, "another coal for this pipe."
The inhabitants of these miserable dwellings were disturbed by the noise of our departure; and as our party of about twenty soldiers drew up in rank before marching off, we were reconnoitred by many a beldam from the half-opened door of her cottage.
'Here, beldam, deyvil's kind, growled the harsh voice of Dirk Hatteraick from the inside of his den, 'what makest thou there? 'Laying the roughies to keep the cauld wind frae you, ye desperate do-nae-good. Ye're e'en ower weel off, and wotsna; it will be otherwise soon. 'Have you brought me the brandy, and any news of my people? said Dirk Hatteraick. 'There's the flask for ye.
There hobbles Goody Foster, a sour and bitter old beldam, looking as if she went to curse, and not to pray, and whom many of her neighbors suspect of taking an occasional airing on a broomstick. There, too, slinking shamefacedly in, you observe that same poor do-nothing and good-for-nothing whom we saw castigated just now at the whipping-post.
If I live miserable, at least I shall not die stained with that unnatural guilt! And thou proceed if thou hast more to tell proceed, while thou hast voice to speak it, and I have powers to listen." "Yes," answered the beldam, "the hour when you shall hear, and I shall speak, is indeed passing rapidly away.
She became a perfect nightmare to the man, much the same as the little old woman of the coffer was to Abudah, the merchant in the fantastic eastern tale; but, unlike that pertinacious beldam, she apparently had no message to deliver.
'Here, beldam, deyvil's kind, growled the harsh voice of Dirk Hatteraick from the inside of his den, 'what makest thou there? 'Laying the roughies to keep the cauld wind frae you, ye desperate do-nae-good. Ye're e'en ower weel off, and wotsna; it will be otherwise soon. 'Have you brought me the brandy, and any news of my people? said Dirk Hatteraick. 'There's the flask for ye.
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