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"You speak the truth," he said at length, putting his hand in his pocket and drawing out his purse. "Na, na, sir, I dinna want the siller," said Janet. "If you ha' a mind, sir, to gie a jacket or a pair of breeks to the minister's son, or ony other article of dress ye think fit, I'll be grateful, but I dinna come to beg. It must be a free gift on your part. I dinna want any man's siller."
The drum awoke from its torpor, and summoned its brethren of the band to give their various versions of the National Anthem. "Can't they be stopped?" Emilia murmured, clenching her little hands. The patriotic melody, delivered in sturdy democratic fashion, had to be endured. It died hard, but did come to an end, piecemeal. Tom Breeks then retired from the front, and became a unit once more.
Gellatley on an excursion of such unwonted extent, Edward began to dress himself in all haste, during which operation the minstrelsy of Davie changed its tune more than once: There's nought in the Highlands but syboes and leeks, And lang-leggit callants gaun wanting the breeks, Wanting the breeks, and without hose and shoon, But we'll a'win the breeks when King Jamie comes hame.
"For ma ain pairt," Soutar used to declare, "a' canna mak up my mind, but there's ae thing sure, the Glen wud not like tae see him withoot them: it wud be a shock tae confidence. There's no muckle o' the check left, but ye can aye tell it, and when ye see thae breeks comin' in ye ken that if human pooer can save yir bairn's life it 'ill be dune."
BLYTHE, gay, glad. BODLE, a copper coin worth a third of an English penny. BOLE, a bowl. BOOT-KETCH, a boot-jack. BRAE, the side of a hill. BRISSEL-COCK, a turkey cock. BREEKS, breeches. BROGUES, Highland shoes. BROKEN MEN, outlaws. BROUGHT FAR BEN, held in special favor BROWST, a brewing. BRUIK, enjoy. BUCKIE, a perverse or refractory person. BULLSEGG, a gelded bull.
'Batsy knows it; about dear mamma. 'Indeed! said Merton. 'Tommy, why did you come here? 'I don't know. I told you that None-so-pretty told us to. She did it after she saw that when we were bathing. Tommy raised one of his little loose breeks that did not cover the knee. That was not pleasant to look on: it was on the inside of the right thigh. 'How did you get hurt there? asked Merton.
But my certie, lad, thought I, times are changed since ye came fleeing down the back stairs of auld Holyrood House, in grit fear, having your breeks in your hand without time to put them on, and Frank Stewart, the wild Earl of Bothwell, hard at your haunches; and if auld Lord Glenvarloch hadna cast his mantle about his arm, and taken bluidy wounds mair than ane in your behalf, you wald not have craw'd sae crouse this day; and so saying, I could not but think your lordship's Sifflication could not be less than most acceptable; and so I banged in among the crowd of lords.
"It sticks in my mind that he would take it very ill," says Alan. "But the little man cried to me to run, and indeed I thought it was a good observe, and ran. The last that I saw they were all in a knot upon the beach, like folk that were not agreeing very well together." "What do you mean by that?" said I. "Well, the fists were going," said Alan; "and I saw one man go down like a pair of breeks.
I remember only a short time ago, one of the Lords of the Admiralty, or some high official in the Marine Department, was carried off by a stranger running into the vessel he was on board, and it was not until several days after that he was discovered, having clung to what is called the dolphin striker although to what part of a ship's rigging that instrument belongs I do not know, but conclude that it must be at the end of the bowsprit and that his lordship was hooked up by the breeks, from which disagreeable position he was rescued by the sympathising crew of the vessel which had run into his."
When Corp came home from his work, she said that a poor, love-lorn female had called with a boot for him, and a request that he should carry it in the pocket of his Sabbath breeks. Worst of all, she listened to what he said in the night. Corp had a habit of talking in his sleep.
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