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Updated: June 16, 2025
And having said it she slipped down the slope with her knitting and sat on the mound beside the mourning little dog. When the awe-struck lads asked for the story Mr. Brown shook his head. "Ye spier Maister Traill. He kens a' aboot it; an' syne he can talk like a beuk."
They were baith bred to mainers by the beuk, and onie ane o' them had as muckle smeddum and rumblegumtion as the half o' some presbyteries that you and I baith ken. I was gaun to write ye a lang pystle, but, Gude forgie me, I gat mysel sae notouriously fou the day after kail-time that I can hardly stoiter but and ben.
This is countenanced by the precaution said to have been observed in Nithsdale when a pretty child was born to consecrate it to God, and sue for its protection by "taking the Beuk" and other acts of prayer and devotion. Putting aside such ceremonies as these which may be supposed distinctly Christian, there were other charms looked upon as efficacious.
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