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My son, my own son, the unfortunate cratur; I never thought but what he was with the militia far away. And how could it ever come into my head that Owen could have any hand in a thing of the kind?" "But I did not see him last night," interrupted I. "Oh! he was there! One of his own friends, one of the military that went with you, saw him among the prisoners, and came just now to tell me of it.
'I was mysel' dreidfu' miserable for a while, Robert resumed, 'for I cudna see or hear God at a'; but God heard me, and loot me ken that he was there an' that a' was richt. It was jist like whan a bairnie waukens up an' cries oot, thinkin' it 's its lane, an' through the mirk comes the word o' the mither o' 't, sayin', "I'm here, cratur: dinna greit."
"Eh, but he's a terrible cratur that Ma'colm MacPhail!" said the old wives to each other, for they felt there must be something wicked in him to ride like that. But he turned her aside from the steep hill, and passed along the street that led to the town gate of the House.
When they reached the loch, there was Gibbie already but a few yards from the only possible landing-place, swimming with one hand, while in the other arm he held a baby lamb, its head lying quite still on his shoulder: it had been stunned by the fall, but might come round again. Then first Donal began to perceive that the cratur was growing an athlete.
He hesna muckle in his head, a'll alloo that, Netherton, but he's an earnest bit cratur." "Ou ay, and fu' o' self-conceit. Did ye hear hoo often he said 'I'? a' got as far as saxty-three, and then a' lost coont. But a' keepit 'dear, it cam tae the hundred neat. "'Weel? a' says tae Elspeth Macfadyen. A' kent she wud hae his measure.
"An' it's what a purty cratur you are that I mane," replied Rooney, repeating the dose to Teddy, who regarded his father with looks of deep affection. "Ah! Go 'long wid you. Sure it's your nose is spoilt entirely," said Mrs Machowl. "An' it's your own that is swaiter than iver, which more than makes up the difference," retorted her lord.
Rooney for it's in terror of his life he lives, continually draming day and night, and croaking of carders and thrashers, and oak boys, and white boys, and peep-o'-day boys, and united boys, and riband-men, and men and boys of all sorts that have, and that have not, been up and down the country since the rebellion. Catty. The poor cratur!
"Ye see, when onybody gets as low as puir Saunders here, it's juist a hand to hand wrastle atween the fever and his constitution, an' of coorse, if he had been a shilpit, stuntit, feckless effeegy o' a cratur, fed on tea an' made dishes and pushioned wi' bad air, Saunders wud hae nae chance; he wes boond tae gae oot like the snuff o' a candle.
No more can I believe that jist 'cause it carriet him it was ae hair better luiket efter nor ony ither bit assie foalt i' the lan' o' Isr'el." "The disciples micht hae min't it til the cratur, an' liukit efter him for't," suggested Cosmo. His master looked pleased. "They could but work the will o' him that made the ass," he said, "an does the best for a' thing an' a' body.
The old man never looked inside, or asked what the book was about, but, turning it round and round with his fingers in gratified admiration, exclaimed "Come, is that really our Jamie's doin' now? weel, I never thought the cratur wad hae had the handicraft to do the like!" The feeling by which this worthy man was influenced was a mere sensible practical respect for good workmanship.
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