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"You can't help yourself fayther," said Samuel doggedly: "pledged we are, and pledged we're bound to be, but "
"Ah, Betty, my own sister," said Samuel, "it does my heart good to hear your voice once more. Add now I want fayther to tell his tale. I want to know all about the flitting, and the black and red letters, and all, and how you came to light on this lovely spot." Johnson raised himself in his chair, and prepared to speak.
"Will you and he," said Becky, pointing to Olly, "come up this afternoon and help us call the cows?" "If we may," said Milly; "who calls them?" "Tiza and I," answered Becky; "when I'm a big girl I shall learn how to milk, but fayther says I'm too little yet." "I wish I lived at a farm," said Milly disconsolately. Becky didn't quite know what to say to this, so she began to call Tiza again.
Begorrah, ye nivver sayd sich a rumpus in yer loife, Larry, 'specially whin Tom's fayther got overturned in his armchair an' Misthress Bowlin' came out fur to say wot all the row was about; whoile Miss Jenny an' Tom an' me, sure, wor all a-dyin' wid larfin', bedad!"
When they were fairly gone, the poor boy slipped from his hiding-place. "Johnny," said his mother, "if you'll do what your mother bids you, I'll give your fayther the change for the shilling out of my own pocket, and he'll never know as you lost it." "Well, mother, I'll do it if I can." "You've heard what your fayther and t'other chaps were saying?" "Yes, mother; every word on't."
When Farmer Paterson, who married a sister of George’s first wife, Fanny Henderson, died and left a large young family fatherless, poverty stared them in the face. “But ye ken,” said our informant, “George struck in fayther for them.” And perhaps the providential character of the act could not have been more graphically expressed than in these simple words.
Old Jenny'll see to fayther while I'm off. It'll be all right if I'm at home some time in the forenoon. So you see, mates, it couldn't be better; as the parson says, it's quite a providence." "Well, what say you?" cried Will Jones. "Shall we strike hands on it?" All at once shook hands, vowing to serve out poor Johnson.
'That be fayther! she whispered, with a very blank countenance, and listened with her sunburnt hand to her ear. 'Tisn't me, only Davy he'll be callin', she said, with a great sigh, and a joyless smile. 'Now git ye away i' God's name.
"Ye knows," he continued, "that yer fayther is acquainted wid the way as well as yerself; the horses are frish and strong, and he'll not spare thim; the road, too, is not as long as by the rig'lar route that we've follyed so often."
"Promoter is an uncommon name. I never knew a Promoter before; but the Campbells are a big clan. I dare say you have known a great many Campbells?" "The man whom fayther sold his fish to was a Campbell. And the woman I lodged wi' in Glasgow had a daughter married to a Campbell. And Mistress Lauder often sent me to Campbell's big store for silk and trimmings.
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