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"’The de’il when sick, a saint would be, But when he got well, the de’il a saint was he.’" "Don’t, husband," said Mrs. Middleton; "perhaps she will never come back alive, and then you will be sorry." Uncle Joshua readily guessed his wife’s meaning, and turning to Luce, said, "Rout out the whole gang and set ’em to huntin’."
I have heard my father say that the Duke of Cumberland was worth twenty of Willie Wallace. David Haggart. Ye had better sae naething agin Willie Wallace, Geordie, for, if ye do, De’il hae me, if I dinna tumble ye doon the craig. Fine materials in that lad for a hero, you will say. Yes, indeed, for a hero, or for what he afterwards became.
On one of these occasions, he brought the animal back reeking; when Tommy Mitcheson, the bank horse-keeper, a rough-spoken fellow, exclaimed to him: “Set such fellows as you on horseback, and you’ll soon ride to the De’il.” But Tommy Mitcheson lived to tell the joke, and to confess that, after all, there had been a better issue to George’s horsemanship than that which he predicted.
As they drew nigh, one of them shouted to me, ‘Wha are ye, man? are ye o’ the Auld Toon?’ I made no answer. ‘Ha! ye are o’ the New Toon; De’il tak ye, we’ll moorder ye’; and the next moment a huge stone sung past my head. ‘Let me be, ye fule bodies,’ said I, ‘I’m no of either of ye, I live yonder aboon in the Castle.’ ‘Ah! ye live in the Castle; then ye’re an auld tooner; come gie us your help, man, and dinna stand there staring like a dunnot, we want help sair eneugh.
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