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We are auld neighbours, an we were nae kin and my gude-dame's fain to see you she clavers about your father that was killed lang syne." "Hush, hush, Hobbie not a word about that it's a story better forgotten."
You never knew anything of the game, but how I was mistaken in going to work on you, makes me sick." He glared at me as though I had done him an injury. To-day I know how it is that year after year, week after week, the bunco steerer, who is the confidence trick and the card-sharper man of other climes, secures his prey. He clavers them over with flattery as the snake clavers the rabbit.
"The old fox is here," said Clavers, passing his sword up to the hilt betwixt the mother and her infant, sleeping unconsciously on her arm, and thrusting it home with such violence that the point perforated the bed, and even penetrated the floor beneath. "Toss out the whelp," vociferated Red Rob always forward on such occasions; "and the b ch will follow."
'So ill for both us and the lad, she said. Simon looked doubtful. 'If thou canst not save thy soul without, he said, 'thou mightst go on some feast day, when there is such a concourse of folk that thou mightst not be noticed, and come away at once without halting for idle clavers, as they call them here. 'That's what the women folk are keen for with their church-going, said Hob with a grin.
My uncle once more paid no attention to my words; only hung his head and held his peace; and I might have been led to fancy that he had not heard me, if his next speech had not contained a kind of echo from my own. 'I would say naething o' thae clavers to Mary, he observed, and began to walk forward.
'Oh, for mercy's sake, dinna let us have clavers of that sort, or we shall have thee in yon nunnery! exclaimed Jean. 'See this girdle of Maggie's, which she has given me. Must I not make another hole to draw it up enough for my waist?
My uncle once more paid no attention to my words; only hung his head and held his peace; and I might have been led to fancy that he had not heard me, if his next speech had not contained a kind of echo from my own. "I would say naething o' thae clavers to Mary," he observed, and began to walk forward.
"Bide a wee bide a wee; you southrons are aye in sic a hurry, and this is something concerns yourself, an ye wad tak patience to hear't Yill? deil a drap o' yill did Pate offer me; but Mattie gae us baith a drap skimmed milk, and ane o' her thick ait jannocks, that was as wat and raw as a divot. O for the bonnie girdle cakes o' the north! and sae we sat doun and took out our clavers."
There was a small public-house at this time at Closeburn mill, and into this Clavers and his party went for refreshment; whilst an adjoining barn, upon which a guard was set, served to secure the prisoner. No sooner was Mr. Harkness left alone, and in the dark for it was now nightfall than he began to think of some means or other of effecting his escape.
There was great kissing when my girls recognized Maud, and when it became generally known that I was competent to introduce to others such pretty and bright people as she and Laura and Sarah Clavers were, I found myself very popular, of a sudden, and in quite general demand. And I bore my honors meekly, I assure you. I took nice old Mrs.
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