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Updated: May 15, 2025
In the original song there were but two stanzas, and this is the second: "She's backit like the peacock, She's breistit like the swan, She's jimp around the middle, Her waist ye weel micht span Her waist ye weel micht span An' she has a rolling e'e, An' for bonnie Annie Laurie I'd lay me down an' dee." As I have said, the "rolling e'e" has been changed, and wrongly, into one of "dark blue."
Then I drank the speerits and was just settlin' doon to the beer, tryin' to make it spin oot as long as I could; for, ye ken, it's comfortable in here, when an emissary o' the deevil, wi' hands like shovels and a leer in his e'e, came in and picked up the tumbler frae under my very nose and swallowed the balance o' your six-pence before I could say squeak."
She didn't say nowt, but she was ready to go. If she hadn't gone down to th' shaft none of them would ha gone. She's a rare plucked 'un, she is, I tell e'e." But in spite of Jack's indignant repudiation of any credit, the brave action was the talk of Stokebridge and of the neighbouring pit villages for some time.
In our grey-haired days, When the gowany braes Are owre steep for our feet to climb When her back is bowed, and her lovely e'e, Once bricht as a beam frae the sun, is dim She'll be still my bit lassie to me. Stupid auld body wicked auld body Love, like the gowan's a winter liver. The smile o' a wife is the sun o' its life, An' her bosom a brae where it blooms for ever.
But I have a grandfather who loves me dearly as I love him." Some impulse brought her forward, and she took both my hands in her own. "Ye'll forgive an auld woman, sir," she said, with a dignity that matched her son's, "but ye're sae young, an' ye hae sic a leuk in yere bonny gray e'e that I ken yell aye be a true friend o' John's.
"Oh, man," said he, eyeing me with a somewhat wry smile, "I'm juist thinkin' ye're no' afeared o' bogles, whateffer!" "Who are you?" said I, in no very gentle tone. "Donal's my name, sir, an' if ye had an e'e for the tartan, ye'd ken I was a Stuart." "And what do you want here, Donald Stuart?"
Duncan had a mistress, scarce less forlorn and greatly older than himself, who came up, whimpering and curtseying, to add the weight of her betrayal. My lord gave her the oath in his most roaring voice, and added an intolerant warning. "Mind what ye say now, Janet," said he. "I have an e'e upon ye, I'm ill to jest with."
He was saying something with marked emphasis, but the words escaped the tailor's ears. Wilson was answering nothing. Loosing his hold of him, Ralph walked quietly away. Wilson entered the cottage with a livid face, and murmuring, as though to himself, "Aiblins we may be quits yet, my chiel'. A great stour has begoon, my birkie. Your fire-flaucht e'e wull na fley me.
There was a fine courage in her manner as she struck the chords and sang the opening lines of the gay song: "'Threescore o' nobles rode up the King's ha' But bonnie Glenogie's the flower of them a', Wi' his milk-white steed and his bonnie black e'e." but here her voice dropped, and it was almost in a whisper that she let the maiden of the song utter the secret wish of her heart
"Oh! he's a' richt! It's only a whim o' Doom's that mak's him discoontenance the fellow. I'll allow the gentleman has a name for gallantry and debt, and a wheen mair genteel vices that's neither here nor there, but he's a pretty lad. He's the man for my fancy six feet tall, a back like a board, and an e'e like lightning. And he's nane the waur o' ha'in' a great interest in Mungo Byde's storie."
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