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Speug extricated himself and demanded news of the Bailie. Then the three told Speug the story together in bits, one beginning where another left off. "He was that astonished when ye coupit over that he couldna speak, and Jock cried, 'The Bailie has killed Speug." "He was wantin' to lift ye up, but Bauldie gets in afore him and dares him to strike ye a second time."
He's an ower grand doggie. Ma puir bairnie, dinna greet so sair!" For the little girl suddenly released the wee Highlander and sobbed on her mother's shoulder. "He isna ma ain Bobby ony mair!" She "couldna thole" to watch him as he tumbled down the brae. On the outward march, among the many dogs and laddies that had followed the soldiers, Bobby escaped notice.
Ye needna think you had onything to dae wi' it, said Willie. 'Ye've been drinkin' beer, his friend remarked, not accusingly, but merely by way of stating a fact. 'So wud you, if ye had ma aunt. 'Maybe I wud, Macgregor sympathetically admitted. 'But ye couldna droon her in twa hauf pints. Ach, I'm fed up wi' her.
The farmer opened his casement, and speering if I had been at the raid of the Covenanters, which, for the sake of truth and the glory of God, I couldna deny, he shot me dead on the spot; for his bullet gaed in my breast, and is fast in my "
But to ken that ane's purpose is right, and to make their heart strong, is the way to get through the warst day's darg. The bairns' rime says, the warst blast of the borrowing days* couldna kill the three silly poor hog-lams.
"'I dinna ken, I said, 'whaur nane o' thae gaed; but did yer mother hae a staff? "'A little staff, he said; 'it was near black wi' age. She couldna gang frae the bed to her chair withoot it. It was broadened oot at the foot wi' her leanin' on't sae muckle. "'I've heard tell, I said, ''at the dominie up i' Glen Quharity took awa the staff. "He didna speir for nae other thing.
A' day I've had my dwelling into the inside of a stack of hay, where I couldna see the nebs of my ten fingers; and then two hours of it waiting here for you, and you never coming! Dod, and ye're none too soon the way it is, with me to sail the morn! The morn? what am I saying? the day, I mean." "Ay, Alan man, the day, sure enough," said I. "It's past twelve now, surely, and ye sail the day.
Jess had been up before Leeby could get the fire lit, with great difficulty reaching the window in her bare feet, and many a time had she said that the post must be by. "Havers," said Leeby, "he winna be for an hour yet. Come awa' back to your bed." "Na, he maun be by," Jess would say in a few minutes; "ou, we couldna expeck this month." So it went on until Jess's hand shook the blind.
I dinna wish the young gentleman ill, he said, 'but I hope that they that hae got him will keep him, and no let him back to this Hieland border to plague us wi' black-mail and a' manner o' violent, wrongous, and masterfu' oppression and spoliation, both by himself and others of his causing, sending, and hounding out; and he couldna tak care o' the siller when he had gotten it neither, but flung it a' into yon idle quean's lap at Edinburgh; but light come light gane.
M'Adam drew back, the better to scan his would-be benefactor; his lower jaw dropped, and he eyed the stranger with a drolly sarcastic air. "A poun', man! A pouxi' for yon noble dorg!" he pointed a crooked forefinger at the little creature, whose scowling mask peered from beneath the chair. "Man, I couldna do it. Na, na; ma conscience wadna permit me. 'Twad be fair robbin' ye.
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