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He was after a hare yesterday, and it took him a chase over that mountain, and down it went and took shelter in the cave, and in went the boy after it, and as he was groping about, he lights on an old great coat; and he brought it home with him, and was showing it, as I was boiling the potatoes for their dinner yesterday, to his father forenent me; and turning the pockets inside out, what should come up but the broken head of a pipe; then he sarches in the other pocket, and finds a paper written all over I could not read it thank God, I never could read none of them wicked things, nor could the boy by very great luck he could not, being no scholar, or it would be all over the country before this."

They 're a dhirty set, and I wish to go no nearer." "What dey look like, in 'e dark?" inquired Little Smash "Awful as by daylight?" "It's not meself that stopped to admire 'em. Nick and I had our business forenent us, and when a man is hurried, it isn't r'asonable to suppose he can kape turning his head about to see sights." "What dey do wid Misser Woods? What sabbage want wid dominie?"

There's marble and slate quarries, and there was word o' coal in Benbecula. And there's the iron mines at Ranna. 'Where's that? I asked. 'Up forenent Skye. We call in there, and generally bide a bit. There's a heap of cargo for Ranna, and we usually get a good load back. But as I tell ye, there's few Hielanders working there. Mostly Irish and lads frae Fife and Falkirk way.

"You'll git a good chance at the stag whin he tops the hillock forenent you, sor," remarked the somewhat garrulous Irishman. "I won't fire at the stag, Quin," returned Jackman, quietly. "You and I have surely killed enough of bigger game abroad.

"Is it journeying south, or to the other end of this bit of wather, or ice, that yer honour is thinking of?" he cried "Well, and there'll be room for us all, and to spare; for divil a bir-r-d will be left in that quarter by night, or forenent twelve o'clock either, calculating by the clock, if one had such a thing; as a body might say."

He is cunning enough, but I'm cuter nor he I have him in my power, so I have! and I'll give the shupervizor a scent of the malt in the turf-stack and a hint of the spirits in the tan-pit and it's I that will like to stand by innocent, and see how shrunk O'Blaney's double face will look forenent the shupervizor, when all's found out, and not a word left to say, but to pay ruined hand and foot!

But new occasions call for new laws; the side pavement, concentrating the people, required to be kept cleaner, and in better order, than when the whole width of the street was in use; so that the magistrates were constrained to make regulations concerning the same, and to enact fines and penalties against those who neglected to scrape and wash the plainstones forenent their houses, and to denounce, in the strictest terms, the emptying of improper utensils on the same; and this, until the people had grown into the habitude of attending to the rules, gave rise to many pleas, and contentious appeals and bickerings, before the magistrates.

It might happen to any man, let alone gentleman don't take on so. Only think of young Mr. Harry sitting up the night with me! Oh! if you'd go now and settle yourself yonder on t'other bed, sir I'd be a grate dale asier, and I don't doubt but I'd get a taste of sleep myself while now wid you standing over or forenent me, I can't close an eye for thinking of you, Mr. Harry."

"Honest friend, is this the road to Glenthorn Castle?" "To Glenthorn, sure enough, your honour." "Whereabouts is the castle?" "Forenent you, if you go on to the turn." "Forenent you!" As the postilions pondered upon this word, the carman, leaving his horse, and car, turned back to explain by action what he could not make intelligible by words.

My new house and shop being forenent the market, I had noted this, and said to Mrs Pawkie, my wife, what I thought would be the upshot, especially when, towards the afternoon, I observed the commonality gathering in the market-place, and no sparing in their tongues to the farmers; so, upon her advice, I directed Thomas Snakers to put on the shutters.