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Updated: May 15, 2025
Tom wor goin' on ahid, wid `Gyp' a-kapin' behoind him, an' Oi, sure, behoind him agin wid Miss Jenny, whin the monkey Jocko, who wor alongside of Tom's fayther, catches sight of `Gyp, and makes for the to'-gallant crosstrees ov the mulberry-tree, faith.
"Promised fayther! you need say nowt to your fayther about it he'll never be none the wiser." "O mother, mother, how can you talk so, after all as is come and gone! How can you ask me to cheat my own poor fayther, as is so changed? he's trying gradely to get to heaven, and to bring you along with him too, and you're wanting to pull us all back. Mother, mother, how can you do it?
"Oh, mother, mother! it cannot be, it cannot be! he wouldn't leave us so! Oh, Sammul, Sammul, what must we do? It's the drink has done it fayther's drink has done it! I shall never see you, Sammul, any more! Mother," she suddenly added, dropping the apron which she had lifted to her streaming eyes, "where's fayther? Does he know?" "Yes; he knows well enough; he's off to your Uncle John's.
Thanking the lieutenant, we left the wardroom, as may be supposed, decorously enough; but we had no sooner got out on the dock without than Mick executed a wild caper, which made the sentry grin. "Bedad, Tom," he said, loud enough for the marine to hear, "me fayther allers s'id Oi'd be a man afore me moother; an', faith, Oi'm thet now, plaize the pigs!"
And surely if you will gae, you'll no leave an auld body like me wi'out some sma' income. You that's got siller." "I hae nae mair than I want. But I'll ask Davie to do what he thinks he can do for you; seeing that you are my fayther's sister. Puir fayther! I hope he doesna ken how hard you hae been on me." "You sall not go! I'll no be left my lane " "I tell you, aunt, I am going in the morning.
"Well, John, I promised I wouldn't let out a word of it myself; but I didn't say that you shouldn't." "Eh, mother, if I split, fayther'll break every bone in my body." "But how's your fayther to know anything about it? He knows nothing of your being under the couch-chair. I can swear as I haven't opened my lips to any one out of the house, nor to any one as has come into it.
'I mind well as when I were a lad, sixteen year ago, my fayther borrered a bit o' money off John Bolderfield, to buy a cow with an there was 'arf of it in them 'arf-crowns. Those standing near overheard. Bessie and the girl stopped quarrelling. The landlord, startled, cast a sly eye in Bessie's direction. She came up to the bar. 'What's that yer sayin? she demanded. The man repeated his remark.
Just then a toddling small rustic stopped in front of Evan, and set up a howl for his 'fayther. Evan lifted him high to look over people's heads, and discover his wandering parent. The urchin, when he had settled to his novel position, surveyed the field, and shouting, 'Fayther, fayther ! here I bes on top of a gentleman! made lusty signs, which attracted not his father alone.
'I'll tell ye what's wrang wi' you, Macgreegor Robi'son! Willie cleared his throat noisily. 'Listen! Ye're ower weel aff. Ye've got a dacent fayther an' mither an' brither an' sister; ye've got a dacent uncle; ye've got a dacent girl. . . . An' what the hell ha'e I got? A rotten aunt! Maybe she canna help bein' rotten, but she is damp rotten!
You'll be Helping yoursel' wi' a bit teaching afore it is a' gane." "I'll no touch it. What are you talking aboot? Oor fayther saved it for his auld age and his burying." "And he'll ne'er be auld now, Davie! and God has found him a grave that only He kens o'! I can spin, and weave, and sew, and the lasses roun' aboot have keepit my needle aye busy. Why not?
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