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''Twas nae sae muckle gude I gained by't at hame; though I mind the time that a contested election was ane o' my gran' holidays, an' I thought mair o' what bigwig was to get into Parliament for the borough than I did o' my ain prospects in life, fule that I was; until I found the bairns comin', an' the loom going to the wall a'thegither before machinery and politics wouldna mak' the pot boil, nor gie salt to our parritch.
"Come wi' me, Jock, and I'll show ye Edinburgh, as ye have showed me the hills of heather!" This was Ralph's invitation. "Na," said Jock, "an' thank ye kindly a' the same. There's muckle loons there that micht snap up a guid-lookin' lad like Jock, an' ship him ontill their nesty ships afore he could cry 'Mulquarchar and Craignell! Jock Gordon may be a fule, but he kens when he's weel aff.
Jamie's no fule wi' the right sort, an' the yacht is a shentleman, an' the shentleman's the yacht, for it's the shentleman that pays whateffer." Captain Derrick became keenly interested. "The gentleman? The owner of the yacht, you mean?" Jamie nodded "Just that!" and proceeded to count out his store of new-laid eggs with great care as he placed them in the steward's basket. "What's his name?"
Meanwhile John Broom had been round the corner and was back again. "What for are ye stan'in' there, ye fule?" asked his new friend. "What for didna ye gang for the whusky?" "It's here, sir." "My certy, ye dinna let the grass grow under your feet," said the Highlander; and he added, "If ye want to run errands, laddie, ye can come back again." It was the beginning of a fresh life for John Broom.
"My opinion of you, Tim Kelly," the corporal, who was a grave Scotchman, said; "is that you're just a fule. Your master is a brave young gentleman, and is a deal more sensible than most of them, who spend all their time in drinking wine and playing cards. A knowledge of the language is most useful.
'T was a li'l bit of poetry he'd made up to please me and I, fule as I was, didn't say the right thing when he axed me what I thought; so Clem tore the rhymes in pieces an' sent them away. He said the river would onderstand. An' the river onderstands why I dropped them dead blossoms in, tu. A wise, ancient stream, I doubt.
So I should if I could ha' got at him; but he fled hither an' he fled thither, and he was about me like a cooper a-walkin' round a cask. An' I was fule enough to lose temper, an' the crowd begun to laugh an' gibe at me, an' I took to räacin' round after him, an' my wind went, an' wheer was I then? He knocked me down fair an' square he did it. Th' on'y time it iver chanced to me.
The black boy thought of these things in an instant of time, and did what he could to upset the plans of the Home Guards by yelling at the top of his voice. "Keep still, you little fule," said Beardsley, in an angry whisper. "Nobody's going to hurt you." "Aint, hey?" exclaimed a second man, who at that moment came upon the scene.
And the workingman kens as weel as do I that after a fire the first thing a man does is tae mak' the hoose habitable again. He mends the roof. He patches the holes i' the walls. Wad he be painting the veranda before he did those things? Not unless he was a fule no, nor building a new bay window for the parlor. Sae let us a' be thinking of what's necessary before we come to thought of luxuries.
What do 'e expect from a fule but folly, or a crab tree but useless fruit, or hot blood but the ways of it? This ban't to speak of Will Blanchard, though. 'Pon him we'll say no more till he've heard what's on folks' tongues. A maddening bwoy I'll allow you that an' he've took a year or two off my life wan time an' another.
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