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Updated: May 22, 2025
"I will pay that, my friend, and all other reasonable charges." "Reasonable charges!" said the sexton; "ou, there's grundmail and bell-siller, though the bell's broken, nae doubt and the kist and my day's wark and my bit fee and some brandy and yill to the dirgie, I am no thinking that you can inter her, to ca' decently, under saxteen pund Scots."
I was crooning the auld dirgie; if it does nae guid, it does nae harm. She recited in a monotone: 'When thou frae here away art past Every nicht and all To Whinny-muir thou comest at last, And Christ receive thy saul. 'If ever thou gavest hosen and shoon Every nicht and all Sit thee down and put them on, And Christ receive thy saul 'Alas, he never gave nane, puir man, said the woman with a sob.
What the funeral feast, or "dirgie," as it is called, was to the men, the gloomy preparations of the dead body for the coffin were to the women.
The former fluid, as I afterward ascertained, was of the kind advertised as "curious," and proffered for sale at the reasonable rate of sixteen shillings per dozen. The banquet, on the whole, was rather peculiar than enticing; and, for the life of me, I could not divest myself of the idea that the self-same viands had figured, not long before, as funeral refreshments at a dirgie.
The former fluid, as I afterwards ascertained, was of the kind advertised as "curious," and proffered for sale at the reasonable rate of sixteen shillings per dozen. The banquet, on the whole, was rather peculiar than enticing; and, for the life of me, I could not divest myself of the idea that the selfsame viands had figured, not long before, as funeral refreshments at a dirgie.
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