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"In Edinburgh," replied Alison; "the honest man thought it was best to gang and sit by the chimley when the reek rase a vex'd man he's been and a feared but ye ken the Laird as weel as I do." "I hope he has suffered nothing in health?" said Henry. "Sold you a bargain?" said Morton; "how do you mean?"
She put one arm about his shoulders, brushed back his curly hair, and kissed him on the forehead. "Thou art mine own good little son," said she, tenderly, "and I will bake thee a cake in the new chimley on the morrow for thy May-day-feast."
Atkins will be here at six i' the morning to do the job, and a lovely mess he will make o' the house!" "Do na fret thee, Simon," said Mistress Attwood, gently. "The rushes need a changing, and I ha' pined this long while to lay the floor wi' new clay from Shottery common. 'Tis the sweetest earth! Nick shall take the hangings down, and right things up when the chimley 's done."
Miss Ruth, the things I have heard folks say, a setting as it might be there, in poor Eccles his old chair by the chimley, as the Lord took him in." To the uninitiated, Mrs. Eccles's allusion might have seemed to refer to photography.
And Rube, as he said this, made a fresh attack upon the wolf-mutton. "I chawed up the ole leggins, till I wur as naked as Chimley Rock." "Gollies! was it winter?" "No. 'Twur calf-time, an' warm enuf for that matter. I didn't mind the want o' the buckskin that a way, but I kud 'a eat more o' it. "The third day I struck a town o' sand-rats. This niggur's har wur longer then than it ur now.
"Which it almost breaks even with a chimley I constructs once in my log camp on the Upper Red. That Red River floo is a wonder! Draw? Son, it could draw four kyards an' make a flush.
The loons had been o' the riggin, and flung a han'fu' o' blastin' powther down ilka smokin' chimley, and syne clappit a divot or a truf upo' the mou' o' 't. Deil ane o' them was in sicht, but I doobt gin ony o' them was far awa'. There was naething for't but get a ladder, and jist gang up an' tak aff the pot-lids. But eh! puir Robert was jist rampin' wi' rage!
"Hain't no signs es fer es I kin see of any trouble havin' 'curred thar," Jed said slowly, his shrewd gray eyes roaming over the peaceful scene. "Somebody ter hum tew, fer ther chimley is a smokin'." Of course, now I was there, the only sensible thing for me to do would have been to ride openly to the front door, and thus learn all I desired.
"At any rate, we sot in Farrell's empty house, drinking whiskey, till they war all gathered, when about two dozen of them got the damp soot from the chimley, and rubbed it over their faces, making them so black, that their own relations couldn't know them.
"It's a lie!" cried the outraged Jean. "I just saw the holly this morning in a jug on his chimley." "Carefully put by? Is it hod on the chimley? Does he stand looking at it? Do you tell me he's fond-like o't?" "Mercy me!" Jean exclaimed, beginning to shake; "wha is she, Rob Dow?" "Let me see it first in its jug," Rob answered, slyly, "and syne I may tell you."
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