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I can aye win throu' wi' my work ohn swatten," said Jeames, with a smile in which mingled a half comical sadness. The laird thanked him, and sat down. Cosmo placed himself on a stool beside him. "I hae naething upo' han' the day," Jeames Merson went on, "but a watch o' Jeames Gracie's, up at the Know ane o' yer ain fowk, laird. He tells me it was your gran'father, sir, gied it til his gran'father.
When I was a laddie at the schule, I was ance tell't that ane o' the loons was i' the wye o' mockin' my gran'father. Whan I hard it, I thocht I cud jist rive the hert o' 'im, an' set my teeth in't, as the Dutch sodger did to the Spainiard. Mem, a face is an awfu' thing!
If I had a gran'father or gran'mother like yours, there couldn't be none better; but if I had a father was such a scallywag as yours, I say a good sight better have none. And you ain't a bit like the old folks, neither; you're another such a one as your father. I wouldn't own such a one!"
But the fowk here likes the cry o' 't well eneuch, an' hae 't to wauk them ilka mornin'. Yon was my gran'father ye heard afore I fired the gun. Yon was his pipes waukin' them, honest fowk." "And what made you fire the gun in that reckless way? Don't you know it is very dangerous?" "Dangerous mem my leddy, I mean! There was naething intill 't but a pennyworth o' blastin' pooder.
She was going to say, "I've eaten it," but gran'father had so earnestly impressed on her mind the sinfulness of telling lies, that she felt constrained to hesitate, and, with a trembling lip, finished by saying she had eaten some of it. "And what has become of the rest, dear?" "Please, miss, she've putt it in 'er pocket," said "Imperence" promptly.
'Ay can I, answered Robert, with some pride, and laid the bow on the violin, and played the air through without blundering a single note. 'Weel, that's verra weel, said Mr. Lammie. 'But it's nae mair like as yer gran'father played it, than gin there war twa sawyers at it, ane at ilka lug o' the bow, wi' the fiddle atween them in a saw-pit. Robert's heart sank within him; but Mr.
Do marigolds bring luck?" Great-gran'mother, she died soon after, and gran'mother were sore disappointed not to find a few shillin's tied up in a stockin'. The cottage were sold, but gran'father bought it hisself, and moved into it with his family; and years passed, and then gran'father, he died of a fever, and gran'mother brought up eleven boys and girls wi' credit.
"Drink come natural to him, 'twas born in him, I expect, an' there wan't nobody that could turn the divil out same's they did in Scriptur'. His father an' his gran'father was drinkin' men; but they was kind-hearted an' good neighbors, an' never set out to wrong nobody.
Malcolm, who had been some thirty paces behind, was with her in a moment. "Isn't it splendid?" she cried. "It blaws weel verra near as weel 's my daddy," said Malcolm, enjoying it quite as much as the girl. "How dare you make game of such a grand uproar?" said Florimel with superiority. "Mak ghem o' a blast o' win' by comparin' 't to my gran'father!" exclaimed Malcolm.
"But ye'll be meanin' Cawmill o' Glenlyon," he went on with a smile. "It canna maitter muckle to him whether my gran'father forgie him or no, seein' he's been deid this hunner year." "It's not Campbell of Glenlyon, it's your grandfather I am anxious about," said Mrs Courthope. "Nor is it only Campbell of Glenlyon he's so fierce against, but all his posterity as well." "They dinna exist, mem.
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