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Updated: May 5, 2025
"Your mirth, sirs, I take leave to tell you, is most mightily ill timed," he said, "and I shall consider myself well rid of your company." He was riding away when his uncle set his hand upon the bridle of Sholto's jennet. "Bide ye, wild laddie," he said, "there is nae service in gaun aff like a fuff o' tow. My freend here meaned to speak nae ill o' the lass.
"I have here a wallet full of them!" And with that he laughed, although his heart was weary. And with that the man laughed too, and with the fuff of his laughter the candle went out. "Sleep," said the man, "for now I think you have come far enough; and your quest is ended and my candle is out."
The cat uttered an angry fuff and fled, while Peterkin sprang up and exclaimed: "Bad luck to you, Jack! You've nearly made the heart jump out of my body, you have!" "Perhaps I have," replied Jack, laughing, as we entered the bower; "but as I don't intend to keep you or the cat any longer from your supper, I hope that you'll both forgive me."
"Only think," said Peterkin, with a suppressed laugh, "of a superannuated wild-cat!" We now found that the poor cat was not only blind, or nearly so, but extremely deaf, as it did not hear our footsteps until we were quite close behind it. Then it sprang round, and, putting up its back and tail, while the black hair stood all on end, uttered a hoarse mew and a fuff.
The cat uttered an angry fuff and fled, while Peterkin sprang up and exclaimed, "Bad luck to you, Jack! you've nearly made the heart jump out of my body, you have." "Perhaps I have," replied Jack, laughing, as we entered the bower, "but, as I don't intend to keep you or the cat any longer from your supper, I hope that you'll both forgive me."
It seemed she was gaun to speak, but wanted words, an' made a sign wi' the left hand. There cam' a clap o' wund, like a cat's fuff; oot gaed the can'le, the saughs skrieghed like folk' an' Mr. Soulis kenned that, live or die, this was the end o' 't. "Witch, beldam, devil!" he cried, "I charge you, by the power of God, begone if you be dead, to the grave; if you be damned, to hell."
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