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Updated: June 28, 2025
I didna ken whether the bobbie meant rinnin' ower the grund, or coverin't efter he was turned into gooana or bane-dust; but I saw the lauch in his sleeve a' the same. Gairner Winton cam' doon the street at the same time, an' the bobby an' him startit to remark aboot Sandy's horse. "A gude beast, nae doot," says the Gairner; "but Sandy's been gey lang o' buyin' him.
"Weel, I dinna ken whether she has gane wrang or not; but she has ran awa', an' it is gey suspeecious conduct that for ony lassie that is weel-doin'. She is jist like the rest of folk." "It canna' be true," said Mrs. Sinclair, still unable to believe the news. "I canna' take it in." "Ay, but it is true," persisted her neighbor with assurance.
'No! no! that will never do, said Pleydell. 'Confound you, why don't you take good cudgels and settle it? 'Odd, sir, answered the farmer, 'we tried that three times already, that's twice on the land and ance at Lockerby Fair. But I dinna ken; we're baith gey good at single-stick, and it couldna weel be judged.
The sobbing boy hugged his mother. "Do you think I'm an auld woman?" she said to him. "You're gey auld, are you no'?" he answered. "Ay," she said, "I'm gey auld; I'm nine and twenty. I was seventeen on the day when Aaron Latta went half-road in the cart wi' me to Cullew, hauding my hand aneath my shawl. He hadna spiered me, but I just kent."
'Gey bad, ye think, I see, said Liz soberly. 'We're used to it, and dinna fash oor thoombs. She'll be hame the nicht; but he's gotten thirty days, an' we'll hae a wee peace or he comes oot. Gladys looked at the indifferent face of Liz with a vague wonder in her own.
It's a gey wanchancy thing this!" he cried in terror, as the shout "Loch Sloy!" arose again outside, and the sound of voices was all about the castle. The woman within heard it too, for her cries became more hysterical than ever. "D n ye, ye skirlin' auld bitch!" said the retainer, turning in exasperation, "can ye no steeck your jaw, and let them dae the howlin' outside?"
Both kinds of service were sure to be rewarded by a piece of "black sugar," as Bell styled licorice, which he always carried with him for use in such emergencies. "We bairns," she explained, "were niver feared o' the priest. I weel remember hoo my mither chided me for usin' sic freedom wi' him I had lived sae lang in the hoose wi' him, ye ken, that I wes whiles gey familiar in my speech.
"Lord love ye, sir, it's a famous place for wrecks. Why, in that very bay down there two o' King Philip's first-rates foundered wi' all hands in the days o' the Spanish war. If that sheet o' water and the Bay o' Luce round the corner could tell their ain tale they'd have a gey lot to speak of.
"I don't understand you." "I mean she was couthie, but no sair in order." "What on earth is that?" "Weel, a tasty stocky, but gey orra put on." "What language are you speaking, you enigma?" "I'm saying she was naturally a bonny bit kimmer rather than happit up to the nines."
I thocht the Coont looked gey like a galo-shan in't, but I maun be the bonny doo mysel'. And I'm no that wee neither, for it's ticht aboot the back." Annapla thought her diminutive admirer adorable; she stood raptly gazing on him, with her dish-clout dripping on the floor. "I wonder if there's no' a note or twa o' the New Bank i' the pouches," said Mungo, and began to search.
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