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Updated: June 9, 2025
How the Lord's good wheat could be made into stuff so mysteriously bad is past finding out. The very de'il, it would seem, in wicked anger and ingenuity, had been the baker.
It was with this weapon, as one may read in Scrope's Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing, that Tam Purdie Sir Walter's Purdie when a young man captured that "muckle kipper" that seemed to him to be the "verra de'il himsel'," so big was he. "Odd! my verra heart lap to my mouth whan I gat the glisk o' something mair like a red stirk than ought else muve off the redd. I fand my hair creep on my heid.
"Ye're gettin' wickeder and wickeder," said Ben when Black Paul had hurried away; "the de'il himsel' couldna hae taught ye a craftier trick than that. Weel ye kenned that that black fellow would fain serve under a free-handed fool than a stingy knave. Ay, sir, your education's progressin'!" At this moment Big Sam came hurrying by.
"Why, in troth, I can't complain, Mr. Malcomson; here's your health, sir, and after that we must drink another." "Mony thanks, Andrew." "Hang it, I'm not Andrew: that sounds like Scotch; I'm Andy, man alive." "Wfiel mony thanks, Andy; but for the maitter o' that, what the de'il waur wad it be gin it were Scotch?" "Bekaise I wouldn't like to be considered a Scotchman, somehow."
Less if we may judge from a remark he once made in my hearing many long years after: 'For, ye see, he said, 'a mither's a mither, be she the verra de'il. Searching about in the dark, he found the one article unsold by the landlord, a stool, with but two of its natural three legs.
And she flouted herself into the school-house. Jasper stood looking ruefully after her, shaking his head. "The little de'il!" he said aloud; "the poor, pretty little de'il. She'll get her dues aplenty afore she's done." And Jasper went back to the play. Meantime, inside the school-house, the play went gloriously on to the finish, and Gardley as Nick Bottom took the house by storm.
I would get him a suit of clothes, and he would not take either; but talked about some silly penance he was undergoing." "Saul, then, your honor, he may be a fule in ither things, but de'il a ane of him's a fule in the sceence o' buttany.
Was the Channel to be laid open to the Hun? It lookit sae, for a time. I was like a man possessed by a de'il, I'm thinking, in you days. I couldna think of ought but the way the laddies were suffering in France. And it filled me wi' rage tae see those who couldna or wouldna understand. They'd sit there when I begged them to buy Liberty Bonds, and they'd be sae slow to see what I was driving at.
She wrote to him briefly from London that her engagements were so numerous as to preclude the possibility of her writing much, but that at the end of the London season they expected to return home. This was before she had "Foregathered with the de'il," in the shape of the handsome, eloquent, and fascinating Duke of Cumbervale.
The muckle black de'il was father to the Frasers, a'body kens that; and as for the Gregara, I never could abye the reek of them since I could stotter on two feet. I bloodied the nose of one, I mind, when I was still so wambly on my legs that I cowped upon the top of him. A proud man was my father that day, God rest him! and I think he had the cause.
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