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We're but puir craturs when a's said and done. A pig can see the wind, and there's them that can hear the grass growing, but a man just breenges on, blin', blin', and fou o' pride." And again, "Ye've a terrible hankerin' for bawkins, Hamish.
We mauna let the Boss miss that sight, for it's a chance will no likely come twice in a life. Everything is snowed under and thae craturs near starved, but trustin' Freckles that complete they are tamer than our chickens. Look hard, bairns!" he whispered. "Ye winna see the like o' yon again, while God lets ye live. Notice their color against the ice and snow, and the pretty skippin' ways of them!
"A'nt 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."
"But it's hard, Jess, that money wull buy life after a', an' if Annie wes a duchess her man wudna lose her; but bein' only a puir cottar's wife, she maun dee afore the week's oot. "Gin we hed him the morn there's little doot she would be saved, for he hesna lost mair than five per cent, o' his cases, and they 'ill be puir toon's craturs, no strappin women like Annie.
'But, she added thoughtfully, 'gien it warna that we're in Scotlan', and they're nigh-han' Rom', I wud hae been 'maist sure I had won intil ane o' the catacombs! 'Eh, losh, lat me awa to the hill! cried Steenie, stopping and half turning. 'I canna bide the verra word o' the craturs! 'What word than? asked Kirsty, a little surprised; for how did Steenie know anything about the catacombs?
You've made your family quite contented and peaceable, and they never fight for the praties now good reason why they shouldn't, seeing that there's a plenty for all of them, and the pig craturs into the bargain.
At that Scaurdale leant over his saddle. "Ye'll never be in want if ye knock at my door, so long as the mortar holds the stanes thegither." "Good night to you, Sir Churchman; I'm in nae swither whether I would change places wi' ye the night, but weemen are daft craturs, poor things, and I've had my day."
"Maybe he will, Miss; and as you say, I couldn't dacently be off it now. But thin oh laws! I'm thinking what will poor Pat be doing without me, and no one in it at all to bile the pratees and feed the pigs the craturs!" "That's nonsense, Mary you and he was always fighting; he'll have more peace in it when you're gone."
An', 'deed, gien it warna that the wives an' the verra weans hae themsel's to fecht i' the same battle o' guid an' ill, I dinna see the muckle differ there wad be atween them an' the fish, nor what for they sudna ate ane anither as the craturs i' the watter du.
"Ou, ay; that's true as far as we, short-lived and short-sichtit craturs, see o' them! but this warl's but the beginnin; and the glory o' Christ, wha's the vera Love o' the Father, spreads a heap further nor that. It's no for naething we're tellt hoo the sinner-women cam til him frae a' sides! They needit him sair, and cam.
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