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Updated: May 7, 2025
"What does she want here?" said the impatient magistrate "Can she not tell her business, or go away?" "It's my bairn! it's Magdalen Murdockson I'm wantin'," answered the beldam, screaming at the highest pitch of her cracked and mistuned voice "havena I been telling ye sae this half-hour? And if ye are deaf, what needs ye sit cockit up there, and keep folk scraughin' t'ye this gate?"
Some say it was out o' compliment to Lieutenant Taffril, for it's neist to certain that he'll marry Jenny Caxon, some say it's to please your honour and Monkbarns that wear wigs and some say there's some auld story about a periwig that ane o' the bailies got and neer paid for Onyway, there he is, sitting cockit up like a skart upon the tap o' the craig, to skirl when foul weather comes."
He'd stuck himsel' wi' his soord, because a lassie wudna mairry him, an' he was juist lyin' tellin' a' the fowk aboot crooil weemin, an' peace in the grave, an' a'thing, when Sandy cockit up his spygless to hae a glower at him afore he gae his henmist gasp.
It would be an unlucky business to have our poor beauty either sitting 'like Patience on a monument', or 'cockit up on a baggage-waggon. But that will never be. Philip is not the man to have a wife in barracks. He would have her like his books, in morocco, or not at all. 'He would never involve her in discomforts.
Some say it was out o' compliment to Lieutenant Taffril, for it's neist to certain that he'll marry Jenny Caxon, some say it's to please your honour and Monkbarns that wear wigs and some say there's some auld story about a periwig that ane o' the bailies got and neer paid for Onyway, there he is, sitting cockit up like a skart upon the tap o' the craig, to skirl when foul weather comes."
'Oh, Reggie, it is too good in you! were the words that came with her fervent kiss. 'Remember how many years I have been seasoned to being "cockit up on a baggage waggon." Ought not such an old soldier as I to be able to take care of myself? 'And what would your husband say to you when you got there? And should not I catch it from William?
"What does she want here?" said the impatient magistrate "Can she not tell her business, or go away?" "It's my bairn! it's Magdalen Murdockson I'm wantin'," answered the beldam, screaming at the highest pitch of her cracked and mistuned voice "havena I been telling ye sae this half-hour? And if ye are deaf, what needs ye sit cockit up there, and keep folk scraughin' t'ye this gate?"
He was, indeed, the proudest peacock that could be seen, and he had a ring on his finger, and when he came to drink his tea at the Breadland, he brought no hat on his head, but a droll cockit thing under his arm, which, he said, was after the manner of the courtiers at the petty suppers of one Madam Pompadour, who was at that time the concubine of the French king.
And its position, "cockit up there on the brae," made it the theme of constant remark to men because of the tyrant who owned it, and to women because of the poor woman who mismanaged its affairs.
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