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And Diligence replies: "It is thair law, all that they have in use, Tocht it be cow, sow, ganer, gryse, or guse." If the poor had these grounds of discontent, the rich likewise had theirs; and they made bitter complaint against the protracted processes in the consistorial courts, and the frequent appeals to the Roman Curia, by which both their means and their patience were exhausted.
What for sud ye be in sic a hurry? Ye saw me no three days gane! 'Ay, I saw ye, it's true; but I didna get a word o' ye! 'Ye was free to say what ye likit. There was nane by but my mither! Ay wud I, she returned. 'Syne she wad ken, 'ithoot my haein to tell her sic a guse as ye was! Had he not seen the sunny smile that accompanied her words he might well have taken offence.
Balderstone, ye suld hae been fashed wi' few o' mine," said the downright man of staves and hoops, "if I had only your gude-will to thank ye for: I suld e'en hae set the guse, and the wild deukes, adn the runlet of sack to balance that account. Gude-will, man, is a geizen'd tub, that hauds in nae liquor; but gude deed's like the cask, tight, round, and sound, that will haud liquor for the king."
O Lord, what made them send for a puir bodie like me, sae mony braw lords and gentles! and there's my mither come on the lang tramp frae Glasgow to see to gar me testify, as she ca's it, that is to say, confess and be hanged; but deil tak me if they mak sic a guse o' Cuddie, if I can do better. But here's Claverhouse himsell the Lord preserve and forgie us, I say anes mair!"
Nicholas's clerks." "Alas!" said she, "I do not understand what you mean." "I mean, if ye fall among thieves, my precious, that is a Scripture phrase, if ye will hae ane the bauldest of them will ken a scart o' my guse feather. And now awa wi' ye and stick to Argyle; if onybody can do the job, it maun be him."
"A better guse never walkit on stubble; two finer, dentier wild ducks never wat a feather." "Be it sae, neighbour," rejoined the minister; "but see what superfluities are yet revolving before your fire.
"I dinna ken," said Jenny, after a moment's consideration, "unless it be Guse Gibbie; and he'll maybe no ken the way, though it's no sae difficult to hit, if he keep the horse-road, and mind the turn at the Cappercleugh, and dinna drown himsell in the Whomlekirn-pule, or fa' ower the scaur at the Deil's Loaning, or miss ony o' the kittle steps at the Pass o' Walkwary, or be carried to the hills by the whigs, or be taen to the tolbooth by the red-coats."
A farm-hand was first to note their call, and got such a case of wanderlust when he observed the geese that he kept on going without return to the house. He wrote, however, this significant news: "Jack: Wild guse on your pleace. Leve corn on wood-lot. He come back mabe. Steve." Jack Miner did just that; and the next year he left the corn a little nearer the house and so on.
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