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Me and two thousand men who were to be of real use over there! We were nearly the last to go on board. We found the decks swarming with men. Ah, the braw laddies! They smoked and they laughed as they settled themselves for the trip. Never a one looked as though he might be sorry to be there.
"Why is it, Donald," I asked, "that the regulars think so well of us, and laugh at the rest of the provincials?" "Well, man, one reason is, because you're no province soldiers at all, being in the direct pay and service of the King, like ourselves. And then you're a braw set of men, and ken this fighting in the woods a deal better than we do, and we know it.
It had been as he thought. Then he said, "Yes, yes; but you'll come now, like a brave fellow 'a braw chiel, you know." Sim started at the pleasantry with which Ralph had tried to soothe his spirits. It struck a painful memory. Ralph felt it too. "Come," he said, in an altered tone. "No," cried Sim, clasping his hands over his head. "They're worse than wild beasts, they are.
The Joneses drove Vava home after the theatre, and there she found 'nursie' and Stella sitting by the kitchen fire; and even Vava, much though she had admired her sister, thought she had never seen her look so beautiful as she did to-night. 'All's well that ends well, my bairns, and he's a braw young laddie, said old nursie, lapsing into Scotch. 'Has he been to see you? asked Vava.
The churn stood full of cream in the dairy, and with this they made their brose in high delight. "It was braw brose," said one of them. At last they made off, laden like camels with their booty; and Swanston Farm has lain out of the way of history from that time forward. I do not know what may be yet in store for it.
Heukbane and Mrs. Shortcake "Weel, weel, leddies," said the postmistress, "we'se sit down and crack about it. Baby, bring ben the tea-water Muckle obliged to ye for your cookies, Mrs. Shortcake and we'll steek the shop, and cry ben Baby, and take a hand at the cartes till the gudeman comes hame and then we'll try your braw veal sweetbread that ye were so kind as send me, Mrs. Heukbane."
He was weak and thin, and there was no blood in his cheeks. It was a sight to wring one's heart to see the laddie so brought down him who had looked so braw and strong the last time we had seen him. That had been when he was setting out for the wars, you ken! And now he was back, sae thin and weak and pitiful as I had not seen him since he had been a bairn in his mother's arms.
The Scotch dragoon, Mackenzie, seeing me look long and intently at the distant Falls of Montmorency, drily observed, "It may be a' vera fine; but it looks na' better to my thinken than hanks o' white woo' hung out o're the bushes." "Weel," cried another, "thae fa's are just bonnie; 'tis a braw land, nae doubt; but no' just so braw as auld Scotland."
"Alton, laddie, I've been fiechting Philistines for ye the day." "Ah! have you heard from my mother?" "I wadna say that exactly; but there's been a gran bailie body wi' me that calls himsel' your uncle, and a braw young callant, a bairn o' his, I'm thinking." "Ah! that's my cousin George; and tell me do tell me, what you said to them." "Ou that'll be mair concern o' mine than o' yourn.
Mause, who had been an ancient domestic in the family, was a sort of favourite with Lady Margaret, and presumed accordingly. Lady Margaret had herself set forth, and her authority could not be appealed to. In this dilemma, the good genius of the old butler suggested an expedient. "He had seen mony a braw callant, far less than Guse Gibbie, fight brawly under Montrose. What for no tak Guse Gibbie?"
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