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Updated: July 9, 2025
"A puir, wee, hump backit cratur, wi' the face o' a gentleman." "I ken him weel," said Miss Horn. "He is a gentleman gien ever God made ane. But he 's sair afflickit. Whaur does he lie at nicht can ye tell me?" I wad hae weised him till a seat, but the moment II luikit at him, awa' he ran. He 's unco cheenged though, sin' the first time I saw him." Since he lost Phemy, fear had been slaying him.
''Tis the mother will give the poor Irisher a lodgin' and a drop o' the cratur, cried that mother's well-beloved eldest born almost catching her up in his arms, and smothering her with kisses. 'And the masther isn't so hard-hearted as he looks, he added, shaking the astonished farmer by the hand.
My father was a bricklayer, and my mother sold apples and oranges and other fruits, according to the season, and also whiskey, which she made herself, as she well knew how; for my mother was not only a Connacht woman, but an out-and-out Connamara quean, and when only thirteen had wrought with the lads who used to make the raal cratur on the islands between Ochterard and Bally na hinch.
The Baron of Bradwardine with his attendant bailie; Vich Ian Vohr and noble Evan Dhu, and all the clan; the family at Ellangowan and that at Charlieshope, good Dandie and all his delightful belongings; Jock Jabos and the rest; Monkbarns and Edie Ochiltree, and all the pathos of the Mucklebackits; Bailie Nicol Jarvie and the Dougal Cratur; humours of the clachan and the hillside; Jeanie Deans in her perfect humbleness and truth.
His friend, who seemed more acquainted with our species, encouraged him to return; and offering me some fruit from his basket, said "Why, Poll, you cratur, what brought you so far from home?" I endeavoured to imitate his peculiar tone, and replied "Why thin it was for my sweet sowl's sake, jewel." They now both endeavoured to catch me.
He looks for all the world like a monkey, wrapped up in white clothes, but he spakes English after a fashion, and has brought this letter for you. The cratur scarce looks like a human being, and I misdoubt me whether you had better let him in." "Nonsense, Tim," Charlie said, opening the letter; "it's the moonshee we are expecting, from Madras. He has come to teach us the native language."
Speak, noo, my leddies your lives are i' the hands o' the idiot cratur Geordie Willison. If ye gang to the court, ye are saved if ye winna, ye are lost. Will ye gang, or will ye hang?" The women were both terrified by the statement of Geordie.
Not that the widow was less assiduous, or less attentive to Anty's wants now that she was convalescent; but she certainly had not so much personal satisfaction, as when she was able to speak despondingly of her patient to all her gossips. "Poor cratur!" she used to say "it's all up with her now; the Lord be praised for all his mercies.
'Wha's son 's the hump backit cratur', says she, ''at comes in i' the gig whiles wi' the groom lad, think ye? 'Wha's but the puir man's 'at 's deid? says I. 'Deil a bit o' 't! says she, 'an' I beg yer pardon for mentionin' o' him, says she.
"It's to know whether ye'll give up the cask quietly, or have a fight for it. The devil a pair of trousers will they give back, not even my own, though I'm an Irishman, and a Galway man to boot. By Jesus, Mr Seymour, it's to be hoped ye'll not give up the cratur without a bit of a row." "No," replied Seymour.
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