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Ye're growin' a great muckle quean," said her aunt, inclined to a favourable consideration of her by her growth. Margaret "didna like bairns menseless craturs aye wantin' ither fowk to do for them!" But growth was a kind of regenerating process in her eyes, and when a girl began to look like a woman, she regarded it as an outward sign of conversion, or something equally valuable.
"But what become of all the craturs?" persisted Mickey, who was anything but satisfied at this plodding along. "Lone Wolf and his spalpeens did not ride away upon their horses." "No, but yer may skulp me if any of 'em are big enough fools to leave their animals where there seems to be any danger of other folks layin' hands on 'em.
"Weel, ye see, Providence has been kin' till him as weel 's ither blin' craturs. The toon's pipin' 's no to be despised; an' there's the cryin', an' the chop, an' the lamps. "Div ye min' whan first he cam' to the toon, lass?" "Ay; what wad hinner me min'in' that? It's nae sae lang." "But the auld man was an auld man than, though nae doobt he's unco' failed sin syne."
Some of these ladies were extremely "purty craturs," as Barney expressed it; but most of them were totally uneducated and very ignorant, not knowing half so much as a child of seven or eight years old in more favoured lands.
The very men the dear craturs feed, and clothe, and protect, and cherish, sing in the pot-houses that they want their liberty 'Becaus their wifis hes maistery, That they dar nawayis cheip; Bot gif it be in privity, Quhan thair wifis are in sleip.
"The twa dumb craturs un'erstan' ane anither better nor I un'erstan' aither o' them," said Robert to his wife when they came home. And now indeed it was a blessed time for Gibbie.
"That shows the guid sense o' our lawgivers," replied Will, with a leer on his face. "The legislator has wisely weighed the merits o' the twa craturs; yet, were it no for your case, my Lord, I could wish the law reversed. I wad be in nae hurry stealing ane o' thae cummers, at least for my ain use; and, as for Peggy, she would rather see a cow at Gilnockie ony day."
"An't we going to dinner in a minute or two?" "I mean where is the cutter bound to?" "Oh! the cutter you mane! If she can only find her way, it's to Plymouth, sure; they're waiting for ye." "Who is waiting for us?" "Why, three fine frigates as can't go to sea without hands. You never heard of a ship sailing without hands; the poor dumb craturs can't do nothing by themselves."
Well, I mind the time when there was a great storm, and grandfather had to be up all night, housing the poor craturs; for the lambs were coming fast. A little past midnight, mother called me, and there we sat till morning, before a blazing fire, warming up one and another, as he brought them in. I sat down on a cricket, and took two or three in my lap at once, and hugged them up to my bosom.
So there's most danger of mischief when men's sober is that it? Phil. Irishmen? ay; for sobriety is not the nat'ral state of the craturs; and what's not nat'ral is hypocritical, and a hypocrite is, and was, and ever will be my contempt. Honor. And mine too. But Phil. But here's my hand for you, Honor. They call me a beau and a buck, a slasher and dasher, and flourishing Phil.
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