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Updated: May 17, 2025
I hae a half notion that they are just wee hairy men that canna, or rather that winna speak, in case they be made to work like ither folk, instead of leading a life of idleness. But to the point: I ance had a monkey, ane of the drollest-looking deevils ye ever saw.
It's gone on by a sure hand to the destination we ken of. Ye've managed well, Mr Brand, but I wish ye were back in London. He sucked at his pipe, and the shaggy brows were pulled so low as to hide the wary eyes. Then he proceeded to think aloud. 'Ye canna go back by Mallaig. I don't just understand why, but they're lookin' for you down that line.
One of their machines swooped low down and dropped his bombs on us. Luckily he only got the rear coach; but I happened to be in it! D' yer 'ear that, Fritz?" "I doot he canna unnerstand onything," remarked the Highlander. "He's fair demoralised, like the rest. D' ye ken what happened tae me?
Thomas came up, pale and limping a little. "That's no Thomas Crann?" repeated Tibbie, before he had time to address her. "What for no, Tibbie?" returned Thomas. "'Cause I canna hear yer breath, Thamas." "That's a sign that I hae the mair o' 't, Tibbie.
With a look in which doubt wrestled with horror, Blue Peter turned to Malcolm, and whispered with bated breath "I'm jaloosin' it canna be it's no a playhoose, this?" Malcolm merely nodded, but from the nod Peter understood that he had had no discovery to make as to the character of the place they were in. "Eh!" he groaned, overcome with dismay.
"And so I might, Jeanie," continued the girl, clinging to her sister's neck; "and I wish I had never learned ane o' them and I wish we had never come here and I wish my tongue had been blistered or I had vexed ye." "Never mind that, Effie," replied the affectionate sister; "I canna be muckle vexed wi' ony thing ye say to me but O, dinna vex our father!"
I'm none so young, and the wet and cold dinna agree with my oad bones. Mayhappen I'll be better soon, but noo when I'm needed I canna get aboot." "He'll not can rest," Mrs. Railton interposed. "He was oot in sleet, boddering among t' sheep aw day." "And weel you ken I had to gan," the farmer rejoined. Mrs.
"Come awa, Thomas," cried Alec, already across three or four ridges; "I canna carry her my lane." Thomas followed as fast as he could, but before he reached the barn, he met Alec and one of the farm-servants, with the boat on their shoulders. It was a short way to the water. They had her afloat in a few minutes, below the footbridge. At the edge the water was as still as a pond.
Peter felt as if he must start southward by the next mail packet, but in the morning he thought more unselfishly. "There are forty families depending on me sticking to the shop an' the boats, Ronald, an' I canna go pleasuring till there is ane to step into my shoes."
"The best o's tempts Providence at a time, and when a man like the Doctor tries tae rin aifter his dog jidgment canna be far off. A 'm no sayin'," John concluded, with characteristic modesty, "that onybody cud tell what was coming, but a' jaloused there wud be tribble."
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