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Kirsty took from her pocket an old translation of Plato's Phaedo, and sat absorbed in it until the star, unheeded of her, attained its goal, and there was Steenie by her side! She shut the book and rose. 'I'm a heap better, Kirsty, said Steenie. 'The ill colour's awa doon the stair, and the saft win' 's made its w'y oot o' the lift, an' 's won at me. I 'maist think a han' cam and clappit my heid.
"'Why, what do you know about him? asked the Colonel. "'Oh, I ken fine aboot the ae half o' him, ony way, replied the porter. 'Ye see, there was twa lads clappit amang the trees below the Wallace statue forenenst ye, waiting till it was dark to set a cairn net, ye ken. Weel, didna they see you coming doun the water taigled wi' a fish?
Bandy touched Sandy here, an' he stoppit, an' a' the lads clappit their hands. Then Bandy gae Sandy a touch here an' there, an' ye never saw the like. He ate a penny can'le, an' drank half a bottle o' ink, an' I cudna tell ye a' what.
The loons riffed an' clappit their hands at this like's they were a' wishin' they were deid an' buried ablo a big gravesteen. Efter a lot o' palaver, Sandy shot in his first local picture. "This is Provost What was his name again? Be was wint to be a great lad at Man, what's his name again, Bandy?" says he.
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!
"The action o' the alcohol dejinerates the tishie until the liver becomes akwilly ransed, an' the neebriate becomes a total wreck." At this the laddies an' lassies clappit their hands like a' that.
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