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My father used that joke regular at pig-killings for more than five and forty years the time he followed the calling. And 'a told me that 'a had it from his father when he was quite a chiel, who made use o' en just the same at every killing more or less; and pig-killings were pig-killings in those days. 'Trewly they were. 'I've never heard the joke, said Mrs. Smith tentatively.
"Weel, we wouldna be hard upon him," said the King, good-naturedly; "and mayhap the family has sustained some recent loss, and he is in mourning." "I cannot offer that excuse for him, sire," replied Nicholas, who began to flatter himself he was making considerable progress in the monarch's good graces. "It is simply an affair of the heart." "Puir chiel! we pity him," cried the King.
We fancied that we saw the face of an old shipmate on your taffrail, yesterday, and have kept you company in order to inquire after his news." "Ay, ay," answered the Scotch master, waving his hand. "The chiel will be visiting you prasently. He's below, stowing away his dunnage; and will be thanking you for a passage home, I'm thinking."
Then, I was particularly unfortunate with my second wife; I say second, Major, out of deference to you, and on the mere supposition that the first was a marriage at all; but first or second, I was particularly unfortunate with Jeannie Graham, who died in the first lustrum, leaving neither chick nor chiel behind her.
"It's wasted labor talking to Master Wilfrey." The tone was one of vexation. "Did ye tell him what I heard about Justice Hide and his carryings on at Newcastle?" "Ey, and I told 'im he'd never bring it off with Hide on the bench." "And what did the chiel say to it?" "'Tut, he said, says he, 'Millet is wi' 'im on the circuit, and he'll see the law's safe on treason."
By the by, I'd like to see the MacGregor's face when he learns that his quondam friend and boon companion was an international spy! "Dinna get sair, Mac. You're no the only chiel what'll tak a wee surprise." I was just arranging a hunting trip with MacGregor when Bill Peters, manager of the hotel, another old acquaintance, handed me a cable knocking all my plans to bits.
If we have our minds made up on what we want, I can't see why we should be wheedled like that." "Neither do I," was the reply. "But it is aye done for all that. Then there's that ither chiel I think he's on the Local Government Board or something. He's a corker, wi' a face like yin o' they pented cupids that the lasses send to the young men on picture postcards.
"I daresay it is all very splendid and very fine but you were talking of the London news a little while ago, Andrew." Morris, or whatever they ca' the chiel." "In the House of Parliament, Andrew! how came they to mention it there?"
He might have been excused if he was proud of his boy, for he was a noble little fellow, a "braw chiel," as he was pronounced to be by his grand-aunt, Mistress Tibbie Mactavish, who had presided at his birth, and likely to do no discredit to the name of Murray.
The Chief Medical Officer rubbed his hands. "I promise myself a crack or twa wi' him, then.... But how is it a busy chiel like that can get awa' from his private patients and his Hospital warr'ds in the London Winter Season Ahem! ahem!"
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