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Me lauch, wi' ma cauld, empty hame! "Yir the only man kens, Weelum, that I aince luved the noblest wumman in the Glen or onywhere, an' a' luve her still, but wi' anither luve noo. "She hed given her hert tae anither, or a' 've thocht a' micht hae won her, though nae man be worthy o' sic a gift.
"I ain't seen a circus for years," said the corporal with a sigh. "Lord! I used to love them girls in short skirts " "Restrain yeer amorous thochts, Alec," warned Tam, "an' fix yeer mind on leeterature. To proceed: "'Can it be, says our hero, 'can it be that Mr. MacBissing is doin' his stunts at ten-thairty o' the clock in the cauld morn, for sheer love o' his seenister profession?
Red Wull it was who dragged her back to the Sylvester Arms and life, straining like a giant through the snow, while his master staggered behind with the babe in his arms. When they reached the inn it was M'Adam who, with a smile on his face, told the landlord what he thought of him for sending his wife across the Marches on such a day and on his errand. To which: "I'd a cauld," pleaded honest Jem.
'Here, beldam, deyvil's kind, growled the harsh voice of Dirk Hatteraick from the inside of his den, 'what makest thou there? 'Laying the roughies to keep the cauld wind frae you, ye desperate do-nae-good. Ye're e'en ower weel off, and wotsna; it will be otherwise soon. 'Have you brought me the brandy, and any news of my people? said Dirk Hatteraick. 'There's the flask for ye.
"O Lord," she said in her great trusting heart, "gien my bonny man be droonin' i' the watter, or deein' o' cauld on the hill-side, haud 's han'. Binna far frae him, O Lord; dinna lat him be fleyt." To Janet, what we call life and death were comparatively small matters, but she was very tender over suffering and fear.
They saw the Brownie come up, and seeing the hood and cloak, put them on, and frisk about, dancing on one leg and saying: "I've taken your cloak, I've taken your hood; The Cauld Lad of Hilton will do no more good." And with that it vanished, and was never seen or heard of afterwards.
"The best of bannocks!" exclaimed Caleb, much relieve; "and, for cauld meat, a' that we hae is cauld eneugh, how-beit, maist of the cauld meat and pastry was gien to the poor folk after the ceremony of interment, as gude reason was; nevertheless " "Come, Caleb," said the Master of Ravenswood, "I must cut this matter short.
'Maister Chairman, said Geordie, 'I'm aye for temperance in a' things. There was a shout of laughter, at which Geordie gazed round in pained surprise. 'I'll no' deny, he went on in an explanatory tone, 'that I tak ma mornin', an' maybe a nip at noon; an' a wee drap aifter wark in the evenin', an' whiles a sip o' toddy wi' a freen thae cauld nichts.
We said Jack was dirty and we had washed him to make him healthy. He told us we ought to be ashamed of ourselves, "soaking the puir beast in cauld water at this time o' year"; that when we wanted to clean him we should have sense enough to use the brush and curry-comb.
"It's kind o' cauld the day," the landlady said in an affable way, as he stepped into the bar. "Warm enough where I have been," he replied bluntly. "Gie's something to drink in whusky!" "So it wad seem," she said in reply, noting his beaded forehead, as he wiped it with a colored handkerchief.
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