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Updated: May 16, 2025
"What for is the wee felly gaun' tae show us puctures?" Second Lieutenant Bobby Little, assisted by a sergeant and two unhandy privates, is engaged in propping a large and highly-coloured work of art, mounted on a rough wooden frame and supported on two unsteady legs, against the wall of the barrack square.
But in nae event cry on me, for I am wearied wi' doudling the bag o' wind a' day, and I am gaun to eat my dinner quietly in the spence. And if ye ken ony puir body o' our acquaintance that's blate for want o' siller, and has far to gang hame, ye needna stick to gie them a waught o' drink and a bannock we'll ne'er miss't, and it looks creditable in a house like ours.
'Are ye at it again wi' the siller, ye jaud? Gang doun the gate to Lucky Gregson's and get the things ye want, and bide there till ele'en hours in the morn; and if you see Robin, send him on to me. 'Am I no gaun to the ploy, then? said Maggie, in a disappointed tone.
In this public whar we are gaun to, and whar it is like we may hae to stay a' night, men o' a' clans and kindred Hieland and Lawland tak up their quarters And whiles there are mair drawn dirks than open Bibles amang them, when the usquebaugh gets uppermost.
But did onybody iver hear o' a reg'ment gaun' oot to the wars an' comin' back jist as it went? That's the question " "As Hamlet's ghost said when he was takin' a night-walk to cool his-self," interposed Simkin. "It wasna his ghost; it was his faither's ghost," cried Sutherland; "an' I'm no' sure that "
His ruddy brown beard glistered with the shining scales of the fish, for he had a habit of standing by the hut door looking out to sea and stroking his beard, when another man would have smoked and rested. "Things never come tae an ending, lassie," he said, his little red-brown eyes looking out over the grey water. "Either for good or for ill they're always gaun on.
"For herself," she said, "she kend her lot would be a waesome ane, but it was of her own framing, sae she desired the less pity. But, for her friends' satisfaction, she wished them to know that she was gaun nae ill gate that they who had done her maist wrong were now willing to do her what justice was in their power; and she would, in some warldly respects, be far better off than she deserved.
"I am not clear of that, neighbour," said Plumdamas, "for I have heard them say twenty years should rin, and this is but the fifty-ane Porteous's mob was in thretty-seven." "Ye'll no teach me law, I think, neighbour me that has four gaun pleas, and might hae had fourteen, an it hadna been the gudewife?
But I suppose we maun gang awa' hame to bed; for we'll hae to gang to oor work the morn, though it's dam'd cauld comfort to think o' gaun oot to the pit, when we could hae better conditions to work in if only folk had the sense to do right." Thus they parted, full of the subject which had stirred them so much that night.
Wi' his twa bits o' laddies workin', an' Mysie in service, an' Mary gaun to the pit-head, it should mak' his burden a wee easier." "I dinna like the idea o' lasses gaun to work on the pithead," he said simply. "I aye mind of the time that Mysie an' me wrocht on it. It's no' a very nice place for lasses or women." "No," his mother said. "I dinna like it either.
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