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There's our auld barn: I would mak the clay-cats, an' we might pit up a lum; an' I would help Jock to howk a hole i' the wa', an' it wouldna tak muckle to get a windock; an' an' I've forgotten what I was gaun to say; but I'm sure we can pit up the lum; an' the woman canna lie out by."
Jock's to bring a cartful o' clay he's to mak the cats the morn; I'm to bide at hame frae the school, an' carry them in; an' my faither's to put up the lum. An' what is't I was gaun to say? ou ay tak it tak it, Elspeth; an', if he'll no gie ye it for naething, I'll keep a' the bawbees I get, to help ye to pay for't." Here he paused, fairly out of breath.
But what vexed me maist was to think that she wad be gaun to ae place o' public worship on the Sabbath, and me to anither, just like twa strangers; and maybe if her minister preached half an hour langer than mine, or mine half an hour langer than hers, or when we had nae intermission, then there was the denner spoiled, and the servant no kenned what time to hae it ready; for the mistress said ane o'clock, and the maister said twa o'clock.
"Ye're leavin' her yersel'," said Jean grimly. "But I'm not gaun of ma ain accoont. The mistress hersel' was tellun me she'll not be needin' me ony mair." "Well! but what's she going to do, then?" said Marcella, arrested in her careful tidying of her father's old books on the shelves. "I'm going straight away to ask her."
"Reuben," said Jeanie, who saw the necessity of using the interval of his absence in discussing what had brought her there, "I am bound on a lang journey I am gaun to Lunnon to ask Effie's life of the king and of the queen." "Jeanie! you are surely not yourself," answered Butler, in the utmost surprise; "you go to London you address the king and queen!"
Through the little village they were accompanied with the shouts of the children, who cried out, 'Eh! see to the Southland gentleman that's gaun to be hanged for shooting lang John Mucklewrath, the smith!
"Se now, mither, what ye hae dune," whispered Cuddie; "there's the Philistines, as ye ca' them, are gaun to whirry awa' Mr Henry, and a' wi' your nash-gab, deil be on't!"
In changed times, in new conditions, the inhabitants move away to houses less damp, and better equipped with more modern appliances. I see the little troop, or perhaps only two natives, cross the causeway, while the Minstrel sings in Pictish or Welsh a version of "The Auld Hoose, the Auld Hoose, What though the rooms were sma', Wi' six feet o' diameter, And a rung gaun through the ha'!"
Funeral, indeed! 'Christina! what's vexin' ye? 'Wha said I was vexed? 'I've seen ye lookin' happier. 'Are ye a judge o' happiness? 'I ken when I'm no happy an' that's the noo. But I warn ye, I'm no gaun to stick it! 'What's made ye unhappy? she coldly inquired. 'You ! 'Dear me! ironically. 'Ay, jist dear you! And with these words he caught her round the shoulders and kissed her.
Had he not lived his life of action? had he not tasted the fruit of knowledge until it had palled on his appetite? Had he not his books for company books, which could not irritate, and contradict, and bother, as human beings are prone to do? "A boy is a happy creature!" Gaun Neeven said to himself with a sigh, as he picked up the book Tom had been reading; "a happy sort of animal on the whole.
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