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"What quarrel is this, Richard?" says John Paul to me. "In truth I have no quarrel with this honest man," I replied; "I desired but the pleasure of beating a certain evil-tongued Davie, who seems to have no stomach for blows, and hath taken his lies elsewhere." So quiet was the place that the tinkle of the guidwife's needle, which she had dropped to the flags, sounded clear to all.
"What quarrel is this, Richard?" says John Paul to me. "In truth I have no quarrel with this honest man," I replied; "I desired but the pleasure of beating a certain evil-tongued Davie, who seems to have no stomach for blows, and hath taken his lies elsewhere." So quiet was the place that the tinkle of the guidwife's needle, which she had dropped to the flags, sounded clear to all.
"What quarrel is this, Richard?" says John Paul to me. "In truth I have no quarrel with this honest man," I replied; "I desired but the pleasure of beating a certain evil-tongued Davie, who seems to have no stomach for blows, and hath taken his lies elsewhere." So quiet was the place that the tinkle of the guidwife's needle, which she had dropped to the flags, sounded clear to all.
I may weel remember 't to my grief; for though he cam' hame as sober as he was drippin' weet I hae oor guidwife's testimony to that he gaed oot again, and whan he cam' hame ance mair, he was the waur o' drink for the first time sin' ever I kent him. Noo, sir, it a' took place the same day that ye cam' to the leebrary, and tuik awa' wi' ye a novell ca'd Aiken Drum.
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