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"Dinna flyte mair at me for ony sake, Aunt Janet. You'll get the hoose to yoursel' in the early morning." "And then what sail I do? A puir auld woman wiled awa' frae her ain hame." "Aunt Janet, you can go back to your ain hame. There is nane to hinder you. When you are ready, lock the door, and gie the key to Elder Mackelvine.

He glanced up at her with comic shrewdness from where he sat on his hunkers for fine he saw through her and "Ou ay," said he, "ye great muckle fat hotch o' a dacent bodie, ye I'll gang in and have a dish o' tea wi' ye." And away went the fine fuddled fellow. "She's a wise woman that," said the ex-Provost, looking after them. "She kenned no to flyte, and he went like a lamb."

You flyte at me, as if I was a laddie of ten years old but I'll not dare to say but what you do me a deal of good;" and Andrew's face brightened as he looked at her. "You would hardly do the right thing, if I didn't flyte at you, Andrew. And maybe I wouldn't do it myself, if I was not watching you; having nobody to scold and advise is very like trying to fly a kite without wind.

I had twa things to say to ye the nicht, an' I've said them. Ye needna fash to flyte; I'm no' feared. If ye are a rich man, as they say, ye're waur than oor auld yin, for he haunds oot the siller as lang as it lasts. 'You are a very impudent young woman, said Abel Graham, 'and not a fit companion for my niece. I can't let her go out with you.

Mass, but she's out in the street, come o't what like, and the auld Glover will be as mad as if I could withhold her, will she nill she, flyte she fling she. This is a brave morning for an Ash Wednesday! What's to be done? If I were to seek my master among the multitude, I were like to be crushed beneath their feet, and little moan made for the old woman.

"O child of Adam, let not hope make mock and flyte at thee, * Prom all thy hands have treasured, removed thou shalt be; I see thou covetest the world and fleeting worldly charms, * And races past and gone have done the same as thou I see. Lawful and lawless wealth they got; but all their hoarded store, * Their term accomplished, naught delayed of Destiny's decree.

It'll be a tale for iv'ry mother to flyte childer with." "The wind did come with a great bouze," said John. "It must have been the helm-wind, for sure; yet I cannot mind that I saw the helm-bar. Never in my born days did I see a horse go off with such a burr." "And you could not catch hold on it, any of you, ey?" asked one of the company with a shadow of a sneer.

It's a braw thing for a man to be out a' day, and frighted na, I winna say that neither but mistrysted wi' bogles in the hame-coming, an' then to hae to flyte wi' a wheen women that hae been doing naething a' the live-lang day, but whirling a bit stick, wi' a thread trailing at it, or boring at a clout."

I have heard wives flyte in England and Scotland it's nae marvel to hear them flyte ony gate; but sic ill-scrapit tongues as thae Highland carlines' and sic grewsome wishes, that men should be slaughtered like sheep and that they may lapper their hands to the elbows in their heart's blude and that they suld dee the death of Walter Cuming of Guiyock,* wha hadna as muckle o' him left thegither as would supper a messan-dog sic awsome language as that I ne'er heard out o' a human thrapple; and, unless the deil wad rise amang them to gie them a lesson, I thinkna that their talent at cursing could be amended.

"Oak, ash, and elm-tree, The laird can hang for a' the three; But fir, saugh, and bitter-weed, The laird may flyte, but make naething be'et." According to the compilers of "English Plant Names," "this name is assigned to no particular species of poplar, nor have we met with it elsewhere."