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"Well, cousin," said the other, "ye'll wear black at my burial." "Deil a black cloak will be there, Robin, but the corbies and the hoodie-craws, I'se gie ye my hand on that. But whar's the gude thousand pund Scots that I lent ye, man, and when am I to see it again?"
Come all to church to-morrow, and I'll let you hear how I'll gull the saints of Auchtermuchty. In the meantime, there is a feast on the Sidlaw hills tonight, below the hill of Macbeth Mount, Diabolus, and fly." Then, with loud croaking and crowing, the bridal of corbies again scaled the dusky air, and left Robin Ruthven in the middle of his cairn.
"They'se not open to trippers." "To what?" demanded Roger. "Visitors, strangers like," explained the boy. "I like that," said Roger, flushing indignantly. "Hush, Roger," interposed his mother. "No offense was meant. What are these chains? They seem very old." "They were used long time ago to hang criminals. They do say they put 'em there alive and left 'em to the corbies." "Corbies?
In the old ballads, too, one may hear the bird keynote. 'As I was walking all alane, I heard twa corbies making a mane, had surely the 'mane' of the 'corbies' in his ears before it shaped itself into words in his mind: and he had listened to many a 'woodwele' who first thrummed on harp, or fiddled on crowd, how
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