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Giftie tried to get in the hamper with them, but her mistress restrained her gently, while she lifted them out, one by one, and examined each, critically, Mrs. Handsomebody watching her all the while with an expression of disapproval, that bordered on disgust.
Why does Arch-Bishop Elder inhibit the round dance even in day-light? Mr. and Mrs. ECHO and their girls and boys will please answer why? And why has he inhibited all kinds of dancing after dark? Will some member of the same family please rise and explain? "Oh wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us."
But upon very few is the "giftie" bestowed, "to see oursel's as ithers see us," and to many besides the junior Mr. Rutherford, such a vision would be anything but satisfactory. At the present time, however, Rutherford's only troubles were his immediate surroundings, and the problem of how to pass the next three hours.
It must have been almost midnight when our hearts were made to beat in our throats by such an uproar in the scullery, as seemed to cleave the darkness like a thunderbolt. Giftie appeared to be choking in her effort to unloose, all at once, a torrent of ferocious barks. A window shook, glass broke, a shutter slammed.
Mary Ellen, in her excitement, upset a gravy-boat of hot gravy, and The Seraph slipped and sat down in it, and Giftie gambolling, mouse in mouth, ran through it and tracked it over the freshly scrubbed boards. If she had been a tigress with her prey she could not have been more ferocious with the mouse.
He had a slouched hat on, which partly concealed his long, lantern-jawed visage, while his shaggy, uncombed hair fell to his shoulders, and gave one a feeling that it contained many an inhabitant, like that which caused Burns to write those famous lines containing the passage: "Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us!"
It was a colourful spectacle to visualize, and we dallied with it a space before abandoning it as impracticable. It seemed too much to hope that Mrs. Handsomebody, the bath-tub and Giftie could all be assembled at the critical moment. But Mr. Watlin was not to be rebuffed. "Then there's burglars," he went on. "Suppose Mrs. 'Andsomebody's valuables was to be rescued from a burglar for 'er.
If some power had given Hoopdriver the 'giftie' Burns invoked, 'to see oursels as ithers see us, he would probably have given it away to some one else at the very earliest opportunity. Invariably this person possessed an iron will. The stories fluctuated indefinitely.
But when he sees a partially disguised picture of it he knows it for the devil's child that it is. 'O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, and so it would, to see ourselves as we see others. We judge our brother and ourselves by two different standards.
Something flashed. Then I swelled my chest with pride in him. Truly, The Seraph was a brother to be proud of a fellow of sturdy passions, not to be trifled with! He had chucked his sovereign down the sewer! Life became dull indeed after Giftie was taken from us. November drew on to December; beating rains kept us indoors for days at a time. Mrs. Handsomebody had a horror of wet feet.
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