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Updated: June 16, 2025
Only look how the sea rages among the rocks, as if it were a thing o' life an' passion! that last wave rose to the crane's nest. An', look, yonder is a boat rounding the rock wi' only one man in it. It dances on the surf as if it were a cork, an' the wee bittie o' sail, sae black an' weet, seems scarcely bigger than a napkin. Is it no bearing in for the boat haven below?"
We sat for the maitter o' ten meenits, an' I got akinda roond, an' thocht I wud try an' get hame. Mistress Kenawee had putten on her tatties an' come oot for a dander a bittie, an' noticed the twa o's; so she cam' up, an' I got her airm an' Mysie's, an', though it was a gey job, we manished to get hame.
"I ken but a wee bittie aboot the noises." "Who has heard them besides myself?" "Maxwell o'Tullichuil's girl. She said she h'ard the Whispers ae nicht aboot a year syne. They're a bad omen, miss, for the lassie deed sudden a fortnicht later." "Did anyone else hear them?"
They are fond o' a bittie o' onything green. I tak' a bit dander oot the bunkers on a Sabbath mornin' whiles for a pucklie chuckin-wirth to Dickie, an' you wud really think the cratur kent. He gleys doon when I come in, as much as to say, 'C'way wi't, Sandy; I ken fine you have't in your pooch!"
The 'bittie' dog seems to have won a sort of canine Victoria Cross." The toast was drunk standing, and, a cheer given. The company pressed close to examine the collar and to shake Bobby's lifted paw. Then, thinking the moment had come, Bobby rose in the begging attitude, prostrated himself before them, and uttered a pleading cry. His new friend assured him that he would be taken home.
Traill continued to stare at him he explained, patiently: "It's Greyfriars Bobby, the bittie terrier the Laird Provost gied the collar to. Hae ye no' seen 'The Scotsman' the day?" The landlord had not.
The girls liked the Scotchy things, as they called them, that Mrs. MacDonald had for them, and the hot scones, with a "wee bittie" of honey or jam were generally as pleasant a treat as they found anywhere. When Edna had returned from her visit she told Celia of what Mrs.
Her voice was unmanageable. She had left to her only the tenement-bred instinct of concealment of any and all facts from an officer of the law. "Ye dinna ken! Maister Traill said i' the coort a' the bairns aboot kenned the dog. Was he leein'?" The question stung her into angry admission. "He wadna be leein'. But but the bittie dog isna here noo." "Syne, whaur is he? Oot wi' it!" "I dinna ken!"
'I'm thinkin' I maun tak her wi' me the nicht, Sanders, he said, holding the fiddle lovingly to his bosom, after he had finished his next lesson. The shoemaker looked blank. 'Ye're no gaein' to desert me, are ye? 'Na, weel I wat! returned Robert. 'But I want to try her at hame. I maun get used till her a bittie, ye ken, afore I can du onything wi' her. 'I wiss ye had na brought her here ava.
Cicely's eyes were dancing, and the dimples in her cheeks were at their deepest; but Phebe never looked up. "Poor little Melchisedek!" the girl went on. "Wouldn't his old Aunt Babe give him one little bittie piece? Well, it was too bad. Do you lunch out here from choice, Babe; or were you sent away from the table?" "Don't be silly, Cicely. Can't you see I am studying it?" "What for?"
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