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'Well, curse thee, never mind; give me the memorial and come to me on Monday at ten, replied the learned counsel. 'But, sir, I haena got ony distinct memorial. 'No memorial, man? said Pleydell. 'Na, sir, nae memorial, answered Dandie; 'for your honour said before, Mr. Pleydell, ye'll mind, that ye liked best to hear us hill-folk tell our ain tale by word o' mouth.
There are some no bad folk amang the gipsies too, to be sic a gang, added Dandie; 'if ever I see that auld randle-tree of a wife again, I 'll gie her something to buy tobacco. I have a great notion she meant me very fair after a'.
On one occasion, when returning with the rolls, another dog made an attack upon the basket, for the purpose of stealing its contents; when the trusty Neptune placed the basket on the ground, severely punished the intruder, and then bore off his charge in triumph. The proofs of intelligence which I have related, are perhaps surpassed by those of Dandie, a Newfoundland dog belonging to Mr.
But his true works, studied from Scottish life, bear a true witness; and in the whole range of these, there are but three men who reach the heroic type Dandie Dinmont, Rob Roy, and Claverhouse; of these, one is a border farmer; another a freebooter; the third a soldier in a bad cause.
Davie, tell Dandie Saunderson to saddle Black Alan at once. Now, Robin!" "Yesterday," said Greenlaw, "Elspeth Barrow vanished from White Farm. They wanted to send Christmas fare to old Skene the cotter. She said she would take a basket there, and so she went away, down the stream about ten of the morning they think it was. It was not for hours that they grew at all anxious. She's never come back.
This was not her way in undress; he knew her ways and the ways of the whole sex in the country-side, no one better; when they did not go barefoot, they wore stout "rig and furrow" woollen hose of an invisible blue mostly, when they were not black outright; and Dandie, at sight of this daintiness, put two and two together.
This observation honest Dandie made while he was shaking the blazing flax from his rough coat and shaggy black hair, some of which had been singed in the scuffle. 'He is quiet now, said Bertram; 'stay by him and do not permit him to stir till I see whether the poor woman be alive or dead. With Hazlewood's assistance he raised Meg Merrilies.
'I am Dandie Dinmont, sir, of the Charlie's Hope the Liddesdale lad; ye'll mind me? It was for me ye won yon grand plea. 'What plea, you loggerhead? said the lawyer. 'D'ye think I can remember all the fools that come to plague me? 'Lord, sir, it was the grand plea about the grazing o' the Langtae Head! said the farmer.
Then, without answering his questions, she armed Dinmont also with a large pistol, and desired them to choose sticks for themselves out of a parcel of very suspicious-looking bludgeons which she brought from a corner. Bertram took a stout sapling, and Dandie selected a club which might have served Hercules himself.
Bickerton, winking to Jeanie, as proud of her knowing Ostler. "Why, what ken I? Jim the Rat why he was Cock o' the North within this twelmonth he and Scotch Wilson, Handle Dandie, as they called him but he's been out o' this country a while, as I rackon; but ony gentleman, as keeps the road o' this side Stamford, will respect Jim's pass."
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