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"Ye maunna guid her siccan a sair gait, mither," said Cuddie, as they left the cell. "I doobt she has guided hersel' an uco' ill ane," retorted the dame. Faustina was left sitting on the side of the hard bed, weeping bitterly. She did not throw off her bonnet or cloak. She could not make herself at home in this wretched den.
Na, na, they maun follow the camp, if she tak Morton." "That wad sort ill wi' the auld leddy, to be sure," said Cuddie; "she wad hardly win ower a lang day in the baggage-wain." "Then sic a flyting as there wad be between them, a' about Whig and Tory," continued Jenny. "To be sure," said Cuddie, "the auld leddy 's unto kittle in thae points."
While the servants admitted the troopers, whose oaths and threats already indicated resentment at the delay they had been put to, Cuddie took the opportunity to whisper to his mother, "Now, ye daft auld carline, mak yoursell deaf ye hae made us a' deaf ere now and let me speak for ye. I wad like ill to get my neck raxed for an auld wife's clashes, though ye be our mither."
"She has her leg ower the harrows now," said Cuddie, "stop her wha can I see her cocked up behint a dragoon on her way to the Tolbooth I find my ain legs tied below a horse's belly Ay she has just mustered up her sermon, and there wi' that grane out it comes, and we are a'ruined, horse and foot!"
Got with much ease now merrily to horse. Henry IV. Part I. With the first peep of day Henry awoke, and found the faithful Cuddie standing beside him with a portmanteau in his hand. "I hae been just putting your honour's things in readiness again ye were waking," said Cuddie, "as is my duty, seeing ye hae been sae gude as to tak me into your service."
M'Kechnie's name in juxtaposition with Renton's crack half-back, I must honestly confess I am like Cuddie Headrigg "Between the deil and the deep sea." I can only remember seeing him twice. I come to the conclusion, then, that he must have been a substitute, and if I am wrong in my supposition I shall be glad to stand corrected.
"It's my gudeman, sir," said the young woman, with a smile of welcome. "Will you alight, sir, and come into our puir dwelling? Cuddie, Cuddie," a white-headed rogue of four years appeared at the door of the hut "rin awa, my bonny man, and tell your father a gentleman wants him. Or, stay, Jenny, ye'll hae mair sense: rin ye awa and tell him; he's down at the Four-acres Park.
In Cuddie we have a poet for whom the prize is more than the praise , whose inspiration is cramped because of the indifference of a worldly court and society. Things were not always so
Six voices speaking at once, informed her, in reply to her first enquiry, that Claver'se and all his men were killed, and that ten thousand whigs were marching to besiege the castle, headed by John Balfour of Burley, young Milnwood, and Cuddie Headrigg.
Gingerly, and as if treading upon eggs, Cuddie began to ascend the well-known pass, not very willingly; for, besides that he was something apprehensive of the reception he might meet with in the inside, his conscience insisted that he was making but a shabby requital for Lady Margaret's former favours and protection.
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