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Updated: July 27, 2025
It's as plain as a pikestaff, gudeman, and I'll no let ye rest if ye dinna mak me a bailie's wife or a' be done" I was not ill pleased to hear Mrs Pawkie so spiritful; but I replied, "Dinna try to stretch your arm, gude-wife, further than your sleeve will let you; we maun ca'canny mony a day yet before we think of dignities."
The letter-carrier on his collecting rounds with his cart has stopped at the bleaching yard where his wife and little boy are hanging out washing. He lights his pipe and, after a brief rest to take breath, turns to helping the gude-wife hang the things on the line. Then he packs the dry clothes in his cart, puts the boy in with them and, puffing leisurely at his pipe, lounges soberly homeward.
Having to get out very quickly, Bobby did a forbidden thing: swiftly and noisily he dashed around the dark place, and there arose such wild squawkings and rushings of wings as to bring the gude-wife out of the house in alarm. "Lassie, I canna hae the bittie dog in wi the broodin' chuckies!" She flung the door wide. Bobby shot through, and into Elsie's outstretched arms.
If harm comes to me, you all shall swing. Schallberg, Lore, Bagos are already ours. What," he continued with a comprehensive sneer, including all present, "did you think that you had conquered the Bear so handily?" They felt it was the unwelcome truth he was speaking. All day the distant booming of guns had sounded in their ears as the "death bells" ring for the superstitious gude-wife.
On his return the servants came in to whom also he said a word and then from the head of the table he conducted worship the ploughmen looking very uneasy and the children never taking their eyes off his face, while the gude-wife kept a watchful eye on all.
"A 'm dootin', Miss Carnegie, the gude-wife hes keepit ye ower lang in the gairden haiverin' awa' aboot the flooers an' her ither trokes. But she 's michty prood for a' that aboot yir comin' up tae veesit us." Such was the second conference on Kate's affairs on that day.
Not that such arguments are by any means rare, for all wildness is finer than tameness, but because fine wool is appreciable by everybody alike from the most speculative president of national wool-growers' associations all the way down to the gude-wife spinning by her ingleside."
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