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"'Vell, Maircus, I like you and I like your goots, but, ach Himmel! der clooty vetter! And, do you know, I couldn't get the old man to do any business with me because he thought the sun was never going to shine again? I cannot understand just how he argued it with himself, but he was deaf to all of my coaxing.
Lord! if the gentleman in black, or the red lady of the seven hills attempted a felonious entry on her bivouac, what a row the saintly inmates would kick up! It would be a regular 'guard, turn out! And what chance would scarlatina and old clooty have? No, no, she'll be snug there in her sentry-box. What a blessed escape from ruin!
The strangers looked at me with great delight, he whom I likened to the parrot exclaiming "Weel, mon, what brought you here?" I answered in his own words, for want of better "Eh, sirs, it was aw' for the love of the siller." He dropped his piece, and fled in consternation, calling lustily "Its auld clooty himsen, mon, its auld Horny, I tell ye; come awa, come awa."
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