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Updated: May 6, 2025
The oppression which came on her in Steenie's house was gone entirely, and in the face of the pale ancient moon her heart grew so light that she broke into a silly song which, while they were yet children, she made for Steenie, who was never tired of listening to it: Willy, wally, woo! Hame comes the coo Hummle, bummle, moo! Widin ower the Bogie, Hame to fill the cogie!
Crosbie; 'I am afraid, Summertrees, that the provost has given you a bad browst; you are not used to quit the lee-side of the punch-bowl in such a hurry. I say nothing to you, Mr. Fairford, for you are too young a man yet for stoup and bicker; but I hope you will not tell the Edinburgh fine folk that the provost has scrimped you of your cogie, as the sang says?
During the first half of the scholastic day Ballingall's shouts and pounces were for parents to listen to, but after his dinner of crowdy, which is raw meal and hot water, served in a cogie, or wooden bowl, languor overcame him and he would sleep, having first given out a sum in arithmetic and announced: "The one as finds out the answer first, I'll give him his licks."
For ordinary our women keen but when they are up in years and without the flowers of the cheek that the salt tear renders ugly; women who have had good practice with grief, who are so far off from the fore-world of childhood where heaven is about the dubs of the door that they find something of a dismal pleasure in making wails for a penny or two or a cogie of soldier's brose.
"'He's a Bible preacher, at any rate, says Burnbrae tae me laist Fast, for, honest man, he hes aye some gude word for a body. "'It's ae thing, I said to him, 'tae feed a calf wi' milk, and anither tae gie it the empty cogie tae lick.
Stewart put down a cogie and loosened a button of his vest, and with an air of great joviality, that was marred curiously by the odd look his absence of lugs conferred, he winked cunningly at us and slapped the woman in a rough friendship on the shoulder. "Are you thinking yourself " he began, and what he would finish with may be easily guessed.
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