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"They said the truth whaever said it," answered old Edie; "she was buried yestreen by torch-light at St. Ruth's, and I, like a fule, gat a gliff wi' seeing the lights and the riders."
'He spak to me first. 'Whaur saw ye him? 'At The Boar's Heid. 'And what richt had ye to gang stan'in' aboot? Ye oucht to ha' gane in at ance. 'But ye budena stop an' mak' ae fule mair. 'Isna that ca'in' names, grannie? ''Deed, laddie, I doobt ye hae me there. But what said the fallow Lumley to ye? 'He cast up to me that my grandfather was naething but a blin' piper. 'And what said ye?
"And did you take it, Cuddie?" said Morton. "Troth did I no, Milnwood; I was sic a fule as to fling it back to her my heart was ower grit to be behadden to her, when I had seen that loon slavering and kissing at her. But I was a great fule for my pains; it wad hae dune my mither and me some gude, and she'll ware't a' on duds and nonsense." There was here a deep and long pause.
"And what o' a' this, ye fule wife? Or what had Nebuchadnezzar to do with the wappen-schaw of the Upper Ward of Clydesdale?"
An' more than ever now we need to keep our heads above wather. Ye've an old fule over there that's thryin' to upset the counthry wid his fulery an' his Home Rule. But we'll not have it! Never will we bow the neck to Rome. In the name of God, we'll resist to the last moment. Every man will stand to his arms. Leave us to settle with the Papists, and we'd hunt them like flies.
"Oh, I have heard of that smaik," said the Scotch merchant, interrupting him; "it is he whom your principal, like an obstinate auld fule, wad make a merchant o', wad he or wad he no, and the lad turned a strolling stage-player, in pure dislike to the labour an honest man should live by. Weel, sir, what say you to your handiwork? Will Hamlet the Dane, or Hamlet's ghost, be good security for Mr.
But they say he fought very hard in that bluidy battle at Inverness; and Deacon Clank, the whit-iron smith, says that the government folk are sair agane him for having been out twice; and troth he might hae ta'en warning, but there's nae Me like an auld fule. The puir Colonel was only out ance.
At length the latter said: "Alec, I'll bide wi' ye till the neist session upon ae condition." "What is that, Mr Cupples?" said Mrs Forbes. "I shall be delighted to know it." "Ye see, mem, this young rascal here made a fule o' 'msel' last session and didna pass; and�-" "Let bygones be bygones, if you please, Mr Cupples, said Mrs Forbes pleasantly. "'Deed no, mem.
I was thinkin' that bein' strange and silly if not a whole-made feel ye'd no ken the ways o' the quicksan'! I shouted till warn ye, and then ran to drag ye aff, if need be. But God be thankit, be ye fule or only half-daft wi' yer vanity, that I was no that late! and he reverently lifted his cap as he spoke. Mr.
But I should have nae objection to be a general, and to fight the French and Americans, and win myself a name and a fame like Willie Wallace, and do brave deeds, such as I have been reading about in his story book. Myself. Ye are a fule, Davie; the story book is full of lies. Wallace, indeed! the wuddie rebel!
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