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"'N' I could wish," severely, raising her voice, "'s all others could profit likewise by this dispensation. Them as is kerried off by tantrums, 'n' consorts with Papishers 'n' the Lord knows what, might see in this a judgment, ef they would." Mis' Browst groaned in concert. "Ye needn't girn that away, Jane Browst," whispered Aunt Perrine, emphatically.
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.
When A. came to take in her liquor, she found her tub empty, and from the cow's staggering and staring, so as to betray her intemperance, she easily divined the mode in which her 'browst' had disappeared. To take vengeance on Crummie's ribs with a stick was her first effort.
Perrine and her usual burying-colleague, "Mis' Browst," had gotten up a snug supper of fried oysters, and between that and the fresh relish of horror from the funeral were in a high state of enjoyment. Aunt Perrine, having officiated as chief mourner that very morning, was not disposed to bear her honors meekly. "It was little Jane Browst knew of sorrer.
"Dode Scofield's a different guess sort of a gell from any Browst. Keep yer groans for yer own nest. Ef I improve the occasion while she's young an' tender, what's that to you? Look at home, you'd best, I say!" Mis' Browst was a woman of resources and English pluck.
The women kissed each other as often as women do whose kisses are cheap, and Mis' Browst set off down the road. Bone, turning to shut the gate, felt a cold hand on his arm. "Gor-a'mighty! Mist' Dode, what is it?" The figure standing in the snow wrapt in a blue cloak shook as he touched it. Was she, too, struck with death? Her eyes were burning, her face white and clammy.
It's better to come to the house of murnin' than the house of feastin', you know." "You may be thankful you've a house to cover you, Ann Perrine, an'" "Yes, I know. I'm resigned. But there's no affliction like death. Bone, open the gate for Mis' Browst. Them hasps is needin' mendin', as I've often said to Joseph, um!"
"A public, in a puir way," replied Blane, looking round at his own superior accommodations, "a sour browst o' sma' ale that she sells to folk that are over drouthy wi' travel to be nice; but naething to ca' a stirring trade or a thriving changehouse." "Can you get me a guide there?" said Morton. "Your honour will rest here a' the night?
Winna ye light down and bide a blink, sir? Or would ye take a mouthfu' o' bread and cheese, or a drink o' ale, till our gudeman comes. It's gude ale, though I shouldna say sae that brews it; but ploughmanlads work hard, and maun hae something to keep their hearts abune by ordinar, sae I aye pit a gude gowpin o' maut to the browst."
'You think yourself a wit, said my father, with as near an approach to a smile as ever he permits to gild the solemnity of his features; 'but I reckon you did not eat your dinner standing, like the Jews at their Passover? and it was decided in a case before the town-bailies of Cupar-Angus, when Luckie Simpson's cow had drunk up Luckie Jamieson's browst of ale while it stood in the door to cool, that there was no damage to pay, because the crummie drank without sitting down; such being the very circumstance constituting DOCH AN DORROCH, which is a standing drink, for which no reckoning is paid.
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