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"I was acquaint wi' her faither, auld Tenshillingland owre at Fechars a grand farmer he was, wi' land o' his nain, and a gey pickle bawbees. It was the bawbees, and not the woman, that Gourlay went after! It was her money, as ye ken, that set him on his feet, and made him such a big man. He never cared a preen for her, and then when she proved a dirty trollop, he couldna endure her look!
"What say ye to the auld Laird of Cuffabout?" said Saddletree; "he whiles thumps the dust out of a case gey and well." "He? the fause loon!" answered Deans "he was in his bandaliers to hae joined the ungracious Highlanders in 1715, an they had ever had the luck to cross the Firth." "Weel, Arniston? there's a clever chield for ye!" said Bartoline, triumphantly.
FEIFTEEN, the Jacobite rebellion of 1715. FENDY, good at making a shift. FIRE-RAISING, setting an incendiary fire. FLEMIT, frightened, FRAE, from. FU, full. FULE, fool. GABERLUNZIE, a kind of professional beggar. GANE, gone. GANG, go. GAR, make. GATE, gait, way. GAUN, going. GAY, gey, very. GEAR, goods, property. GILLFLIRT, a flirty girl. GILLIE, a servant, an attendant.
Little objection had the tall gentleman in red to make to such a proposition, and on they rode, amicably enough, with just such dryness of manner on the stranger's part as the humble drover might expect from an army officer, yet nothing to keep his tongue from wagging. "It was a gey kittle bit they were comin' to, where the firs stude, and he wad hae liked ill to be rubbit. Muckle?
"Noo that's feenished, and his constitution 'ill dae the rest," and he carried the lad doon the ladder in his airms like a bairn, and laid him in his bed, and waits aside him till he wes sleepin', and then says he: 'Burnbrae, yir gey lad never tae say 'Collie, will yelick? for a' hevna tasted meat for saxteen hoors.
"Oh, but I'll manish that, Bawbie," says he, gey snappish-like; "but still a man wi' brains in's heid canna juist be setisfeed wi' saft soap an' black lead a'thegither." "Ow weel," says I, "you wud mibby fa' in wi' a fell lot o' baith o' them, even i' the Toon Cooncil.
He took a gey nip last thummer, and this thummer I wager he takes mair o't. He avowed his plain intention. 'I mean to kick up a bit of a dust, thays he. Oh, but he's the splurge!" "Ay, ay," said Sandy Toddle, "thae students are a gey squad especially the young ministers." "Ou," said Tam Wylie, "dinna be hard on the ministers. Ministers are just like the rest o' folk.
"I didna ken ye had onybody up the stair. Wha's Mr Cupples?" "Weel, he kens that best himsel! But he's a gey queer ane. He's a terrible scholar though, fowk says gran' at the Greek, and rael bonny on the mathewmawtics. "I'm easy fleyt," said Alec, with a laugh. "But I wad like to see him." "Gang up, than, and chap at the garret door upo' yer left han'."
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