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On the way two days were spent in Stirling, where the King, then a boy of nine, was residing; and the Melvilles saw him and were much struck with his precocity in learning: 'He was the sweitest sight in Europe that day for strange and extraordinar gifts of ingyne, judgment, memorie, and langage.
"But that's waur than a bairn. You'll be worn oot wi' the care o' it. I ken by the heartaches my ain Baubie gied me. Early and late she keepit me in het water." "I hear tell that oor Maggie is just extraordinar' handsome and extraordinar' self-willed. I ken I'm going to sorrow, but her fayther was my brither, and I'll hae to do my duty, or be a meeserable woman."
"Weel, I'm the vera man," said he "Gie's your hand; for, 'odsake, man, I'm as glad as glad can be. This is real extraordinar'. I've often heard o' you it will be you that writes the buiks faith ye'll be able to mak something o' this. But come awa' into the house ye dinna stir a mile far'er for a week, at ony rate." So saying, and still grasping my hand, he led me to the farm-house.
"He's pluckit up his speerit maist extraordinar," Hillocks explained, "and he whuppit by me like a three year auld laist Sabbath. "'I'm glad tae hear the Miss is comin' roond fine, says I. "'It's the fouk o' Drumtochty hes made her weel. God bless you, for you hev done good for evil, and wi' that he was aff afore I cud fin' a word.
"Good! surely, provost, ye hae na had an inspection; they're crackit in divers places; they're shotten out wi' infirmity in others. In short, the whole kirk, frae the coping to the fundament, is a fabric smitten wi' a paralytic." "It's very extraordinar, Mr Smeddum," was my reply, "that nobody has seen a' this but yoursel'."
"It's maist extraordinar' hoo the seasons are changin'" Jamie Soutar could never resist Sandie's effrontery "A' mind when Mairch saw the end o' the snow, an' noo winter is hangin' aboot in midsummer. A'm expeckin' tae hear, in another five year, that the drifts last through the Sacrament in August. It 'll be a sair trial for ye, Sandie, a wullin' kirkgoer but ye 'll hae the less responsibility."
The man stared at me, and then at his wife, with a look that spoke a knowledge of something alarming or mysterious. "Ha! Cowan?" said he. "That's most extraordinar! Not Colwan, I hope?" "No: Cowan is my sirname," said I. "But why not Colwan, there being so little difference in the sound?"
Among the officers, there was one Captain Armour, an extraordinar well demeaned, handsome man, who was very shy of accepting any civility from the town gentry, and kept himself aloof from all our ploys and entertainments, in such a manner, that the rest of the officers talked of him, marvelling at the cause, for it was not his wont in other places.
I see nothing so extraordinar' in young people following the bent of their inclinations and wishes." "But you've followed yours so often, Davy, that I should think by this time it had lost the edge of novelty. Including that informal affair in Scotland, when you were a lad, you've been married four times already." "Only three, Major, as I hope to get another wife.
Whiles I played at the knucklebones. I'm an extraordinar good hand at the knucklebones, but it's a poor piece of business playing with naebody to admire ye. And whiles I would make songs." "What were they about?" says I. "O, about the deer and the heather," says he, "and about the ancient old chiefs that are all by with it lang syne, and just about what songs are about in general.
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