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Updated: June 24, 2025
"Oo-ay, ye'll be gawin' to read me a bit o' the book?" "I thought you would ask that; what shall it be?" "Oo, ye canna go wrang." Flora opened the Bible, and, selecting a passage, read it in a slow, clear tone, while the old woman lay back and listened with her eyes upturned and her hands clasped. "Isn't it grawnd?" said she, appealing to Lucy with a burst of feeling, when Flora had concluded.
Before the introduction of the Highlanders conversation had an easy play within recognized limits, and was always opened by Burnbrae, who had come out in '43, and was understood to have read the Confession of Faith. "Ye gave us a grawnd discoorse this mornin', sir, baith instructive and edifyin'; we were juist sayin' comin' up the gairden that ye were never heard to mair advantage."
"Ask him where she is," I whispered over his head. "Where's the gal?" demanded the trader, shoving more liquor over to Louis. "Shioux squaw Devil's wife how you say it in English? Lah Grawnd Deeahble," and he mouthed over our mispronunciation of his own tongue "Joke, isn't it?" he went on. "That wax-face prig slave to Shioux Squaw. Rufush a fool. Stuffed him to hish neck.
"Oo-ay! we can only get ideas by seein' or readin'. It's a grawnd thing, travellin', but it's wonderfu' what readin' 'll do. My guid-man, that's deed this therteen year, ay, come Marti'mas, he wrought in Lunnon for a year before we was marrit, an' he sent me the newspapers reglar once a month ay, the English is fine folk. My guid-man aye said that."
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