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This lad, laid out at your mercy here, was as fine a young fellow as the West hath ever raised straight and nimble, and could tell no lie. Family reasons, as you will excoose of, drew him to the arms of rebellion. I may have done, and overdone it myself, in arguing cantrips and convictions, whereof to my knowledge good never came yet.
All Michael's sickness could not prevent him considering very inquisitively the landlady's cantrips, and particularly the influence of the sauce upon the crowing of the cock. Nor could he dissipate some inward desires he felt to follow her example.
"Let us go there!" "It is too late," said Rose. "No it is not. There is something delightfully novel in promenading with a young lady at the witching hour of midnight, when graveyards yawn, and gibbering ghosts in winding-sheets cut up cantrips before high heaven. Come." "But Mr. Stanford " "Reginald, I tell you. You promised, you know." "But really Reginald, it is too late. What if we were seen?"
They went down a meadow to a little well, which Hereward had marked as he rode thither, hung round with bits of rag and flowers, as similar "holy wells" are decorated in Ireland to this day. He hid behind a hedge, and watched them stooping over the well, mumbling he knew not what of cantrips. Then there was silence, and a tinkling sound as of water. "Once twice thrice," counted the witches.
It's a dark uncanny loan, forby that the kirk has aye had an ill name since the days o' James the Saxt and the deevil's cantrips played therein when the Queen was on the seas; and as for Tod's house, it was in the mirkest end, and was little liked by some that kenned the best. The door was on the sneck that day, and me and my faither gaed straucht in.
Then I have to see Grace Drever, to " "Grace Drever!" exclaimed the dominie, evidently wondering what the sailor could want to see his mother for. "Yes," continued Captain Gordon. "My ship's overrun with mice, and I was directed to Grace Drever, who, I am told, deals in all the charms and cantrips a sailor can require." "Charms and cantrips!" echoed the schoolmaster.
"Well, sir, for one thing, some folks say it is haunted, on account of the queer lights and noises about it, sometimes; but, again, there be other folks, sir, that say the ghosts are alive, and that he" nodding toward the door "is a sort of ringleader among them." "And who are they that cut up such cantrips in the old place, pray?" "Lord only knows, sir. I'm sure I don't.
It's a dark, uncanny loan, forbye that the kirk has aye had an ill name since the days o' James the Saxt and the deevil's cantrips played therein when the Queen was on the seas; and as for Tod's house, it was in the mirkest end, and was little likit by some that kenned the best. The door was on the sneck that day, and me and my faither gaed straucht in.
"Dugald," said the dominie to the shepherd, "go your ways to your sheep. I'll hae nae fighting in my parish. "Jim Armstrong, you thrawart bully you, dinna think you are the only man that kens Cumberland cantrips.
Well, this dame had a daughter Jess Cantrips, a black-eyed, bouncing wench and, as the devil would have it, there was the d d five-story stair her foot was never from it, whether I went out or came home from the Divinity Hall.
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