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An' we struck the lighter stern-on, just uz I rung tull MacPherson half ahead. "'What was thot? says the pilot, when we struck the lighter. "'I dunna know, says I, 'an' I'm wonderun'. "The pilot was no keen, ye see, tull hus job. I went on tull a guid place an' dropped anchor, an' ut would all a-been well but for thot domned eediot mate.
Jimmy Wilson's always at the top, and the dominie set him to teach John his 'counts the day after he had thrashed him!" She cried out at a sudden tug on her pigtail, and looked up, with tears in her eyes, to meet her father's scowl. "You eediot!" said Gourlay, gazing at his son with a savage contempt, "have you no pride to let Wilson's son be your master?" John slunk from the room.
"And just try to be less of an eediot!" he concluded with a freezing smile, and turned immediately to the papers on his desk. LATE the same night, after a disordered walk, Archie was admitted into Lord Glenalmond's dining-room, where he sat with a book upon his knee, beside three frugal coals of fire.
"But I'm sure o' ae thing, mem, an' that is, 'at he's no sae muckle o' an eediot as some fowk wad hae him." Mrs Stewart's face fell, she turned from him, and going back to her seat hid her face in her handkerchief. "I'm afraid," she said sadly, after a moment, "I must give up my last hope: you are not disposed to be friendly to me, Mr MacPhail; you too have been believing hard things of me."
I have heard since that his heart was entirely set against me; he had seen me kneel to the ladies, and diagnosed me for a 'gesterin' eediot. 'So, ye're for England, are ye? said he. I told him yes. 'Weel, there's waur places, I believe, was his reply; and he relapsed into a silence which was not broken during a quarter of an hour of steady walking.
As I did not volunteer anything, she exclaimed, stamping her foot, "Dinna stand there glowering at me. Man alive, Duncan lad, ye can hae no idea how like an eediot ye can look when ye put your mind to it!"
An' wuth thot I got up, hod a wash an' a cup o' coffee, an' went tull the brudge. I took one look ot the bearun' o' Askthar Light. 'Twas nor'west-by- west, and the old Tryapsic down on the shoals. He was a eediot, thot mate-fellow. Ye could look overside an' see the duscoloration of the watter. 'Twas a close call for the old Tryapsic I'm tellun' ye.
With an effort he said coldly: 'If ye had stopped wi' us ye wudna ha'e been back at the beer an' broke yer pledge. 'Wha tell't ye I was at the beer? 'Yer breath, ye eediot! 'Ho! so ye was pretendin' ye was sleepin' when I spoke to ye! Cooard to smell a man's breath wi' yer eyes shut! Macgregor turned wearily away. 'It's nae odds to me what ye drink, he said.
'Twould be better an' ye could play the dolt not an eediot, or an addlepate but just a dull fellow, slow of wit, an' knowin' nought except of fur." Hedin laughed. "That won't bother me in the least." Murchison shook his head. "'Twill not be so easy as ye think.
It's sad, yet troo! that as I casts my gaze r'arward I identifies myse'f as the balmiest brand of shorthorn who ever leaves his parents' shelterin' roof. "'All the same, says Dan Boggs, plenty conceited, 'I'll gamble a hoss I'm a bigger eediot when I quits Missouri to roam the cow country than ever you-all can boast of bein' in your most drivelin' hour. "'Do they lock you up? asks Dave.
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