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He sat opposite to Sir George at dinner the day of his arrival, and could not conceal his surprise at the many new-fangled ways of feeding himself the Englisher adopted. He ate his saumon wi' his fork in ae hand, and a bittock of bread in the other. He would na touch the whiskey; helped himself to a cutlet wi' his fingers.
I desired some blotting-paper. I went to a little stationery shop. I said, "Paper! paper! für die blot, you know. Ich bin Englisher er: ink no dry; what you call um? Vas? vas? Hang it!" They took down all sorts of paper letter-paper, wrapping-paper, foolscap, foreign post. I tried to make my want known by signs. I made myself simply ridiculous.
I mind Dandie had a wild young Englisher wi' him, that they ca'd " "If you chatter so much," said Sir George Staunton, "you will have the boat on the Grindstone bring that white rock in a line with the steeple." "By G ," said the veteran, staring, "I think your honour kens the bay as weel as me. Your honour's nose has been on the Grindstone ere now, I'm thinking."
Then she started up, clasping the child convulsively, and faced the doctor. "Ye lee, ye ugly creeping Englisher! How daur ye speak so of ane o' the Rothesays, frae the blude o' whilk cam the tallest men an' the bonniest leddies ne'er a cripple amang them a How daur ye say that my master's bairn will be a . Wae's me! I canna speak the word."
They followed us from the eleventh Friday till to-day. It will "Which I puts it up as how you ain't never heard about that time that Hardenberg and Strokher the Englisher had a friendly go with bare knuckles ten rounds it was all along o' a feemale woman?"
"That's anither settle't," says he, pullin' up his stick; an' gie'n't a dicht wi' the tails o' his kilt; syne makin' a kick at something wi' his berfit fit "Let us do or die," says he; "Scots wha hae; Wallace an' Bruce for ever; doon wi' every bloomin' Englisher; rip them up; koo-heel!" Then he whiskit half-roond aboot, an' lut flee at a seckie o' caff I had sittin' in a corner.
But their officer, Lieutenant Swaby, an Englisher by birth, and a sinner by education, was of an incorrigible depravity of heart.
It was a pause in Janet's labors that gave the elder first warning of an intruder on his peace. A man was coming across the clearing a short fellow, thick-set and bow-legged in figure, slow and heavy of face. The elder observed him with stony eyes. "It's the Englisher," he muttered. "What'll he be wanting wi' me?" His accent was hostile as his glance.
"Am you dat Englisher Massa Benteen from up de ribber?" Leaning upon my rifle, I gazed directly at him in astonishment. How, by all that was miraculous, did this strange black know my name and nationality? His was a round face, filled with good humor; nothing in it surely to mistrust, yet totally unknown to me. "You speak correctly," I made reply, surprise evident in the tones of my voice.
"God forgie me, sir," said Richie, much surprised at finding the supposed southron converted into a native Scot, "I took your honour for an Englisher! But I hope there was naething wrang in standing up for ane's ain country's credit in a strange land, where all men cry her down?"
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