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Updated: May 19, 2025
No that muckle the maiter wi' him but a clour on the hairnspan, and midge bites, forbye the disagreeableness o' being clamped doon for a wheen hours in a wat tussock o' bracken. This diagnosis, though not perfectly intelligible to Merton, seemed to reassure Mr. Macrae. 'He's a bit concetty, the chiel, added the worthy physician, 'and it may be a day or twa or he judges he can leave his bed.
'Deil, but your dog's weel entered wi' the vermin now, sir! were the first words uttered by the jolly farmer as he came up, his head streaming with blood, and recognised his deliverer and his little attendant. 'I hope, sir, you are not hurt dangerously? 'O, deil a bit, my head can stand a gay clour; nae thanks to them, though, and mony to you.
There were no bones broken, he explained: "A clour* on the head was naething. Man," said he, "it was me that gave it ye!" * Blow. Here I lay for the space of many days a close prisoner, and not only got my health again, but came to know my companions.
I was bred at the West-Port, and my cantle will stand a clour wad bring a stot down." "Where does your master lodge?" "We pit up, an it like your honour," replied the Scot, "in a sma' house at the fit of ane of the wynds that gang down to the water-side, with a decent man, John Christie, a ship-chandler, as they ca't. His father came from Dundee.
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