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'The tide's risin'. They'll never try to win oot till it's slack watter furbye 'at the Amphitrite, for as braid 's she is, and her bows modelled efter the cheeks o' a resurrection cherub upo' a gravestane, draws a heap o' watter: an' the bar they say 's waur to win ower nor usual: it's been gatherin' again. As they spoke, the boys were making for the new town, eagerly.
"A've got a bit iv a thraytise scribbled down, furbye a wheen o' other wans on han'. A thought mebbe" and his glance rested on the angelface of the sleeping child "well, A thought mebbe it would do hur no harrum fur people till know that hur father well-as ye might say Nat but what she'll hev money in the bank, plaze God.
Me father hed consitherable mains, so he hed; an' A har'ly ivver done a han's turn, furbye divarsion, to A come out here. However, you will now understand why I made him repeat his topographical notes half a dozen times before I let him go. Just at sunset I struck the partly-plain patch of sixty or eighty acres, where the gilgie ought to be.
"Wondhers'll niver quit saisin'. At home, iv a body hed twenty English acres o' good lay lan', at a raisonable rent let alone a graat farrum like thon he needn't do a han's turn the year roun', beyant givin' ordhers; an' he would hev lavin's iv iverything, an' a brave shoot o' clo'es till his back, an' mebbe a gool' watch, furbye money in his pocket. Bates all! Bates all!"
'Somebody tellt me, said the bookseller, inwardly conscious of offence, ''at hoo Lord Sandy himsel' weirs cotton. 'Ow 'deed, maybe. And he sets mony a worthy example furbye. Hoo mony, can ye tell me, Mr. Peddie, has he pulled doon frae honest, if no frae high estate, and sent oot to seek their livin' as he taucht them? Hoo mony ? 'Hoot, hoot! Mr.
An' A've got other proofs furbye, that we'll go over wan be wan. It's a mysthery, Tammas." "It is indeed." Whilst replying, I was constrained to glance round at the weather; and my eye happened to fall on the creeper-laden pine, a quarter of a mile away. Suddenly a strange misgiving seized me, and I asked involuntarily, "Do you have many swagmen calling round here?"
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