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"O, Heaven help me!" exclaimed poor Effie "My poor father my dear Jeanie O, that's sairest to bide of a'! O, sir, if you hae ony kindness if ye hae ony touch of compassion for a' the folk I see here are as hard as the wa'-stanes If ye wad but bid them let my sister Jeanie in the next time she ca's! for when I hear them put her awa frae the door, and canna climb up to that high window to see sae muckle as her gown-tail, it's like to pit me out o' my judgment."
I was sitting on a laigh stool at the fireside, between the chumley-lug and the gown-tail of old Nanse Snoddie, my mother's aunty, a godly woman, that in her eild we took care of; and as young and old came in, the salutation was in silence, as of guests coming to a burial.
"O, Heaven help me!" exclaimed poor Effie "My poor father my dear Jeanie O, that's sairest to bide of a'! O, sir, if you hae ony kindness if ye hae ony touch of compassion for a' the folk I see here are as hard as the wa'-stanes If ye wad but bid them let my sister Jeanie in the next time she ca's! for when I hear them put her awa frae the door, and canna climb up to that high window to see sae muckle as her gown-tail, it's like to pit me out o' my judgment."
One dark night, the very first Sunday after my restoration to the provostry, there was like to have happened a very sore thing by an old woman, one Peggy Waife, who had been out with her gown-tail over her head for a choppin of strong ale.
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