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"I don't gi'e a damn," cried Andrew explosively, "whether the ground is private or no'. I'll take that 'gathering' for Geordie Sinclair the morn, though ye ha'e a regiment o' sodgers at the office." "Very well," said Walker, as he departed, "if ye do, ye can look out."
"I've faught on land, I've faught at sea, At hame I faught my aunty, O; But I met the deevil and Dundee On the braes o' Killiecrankie, O. An' ye had been where I had been, Ye wad na be sae cantie, O; An' ye had seen what I ha'e seen On the braes o' Killiecrankie, O."
"Rin, an' fess her here than, for I'm fleyed at yer sister, honest wuman, an' little Phemy. It wad blaud a' thing gien I was hurried to du something afore I kenned what." "I s' ha'e her oot in a meenute," said Joseph, and scrambled up the cliff.
"Na, nane ha'e I. I wad gang mysel' gien I cud be ony use," answered Mrs Mair; "but women are i' the gait whiles." "Weel, I'll no even say thank ye; I'll be awin' ye that as weel's the lave. But gien I dinna du weel, it winna be the fau't o' ane or the ither o' you twa freen's. Noo, Peter, we maun be aff." "No the nicht, surely?" said Mrs Mair, a little taken by surprise.
They had been regular attendants at their own parish church in the old country; and very sensibly they felt the want, as Sabbath after Sabbath passed away, with no service to mark it from other days. "It just seems," said Mr. Ainslie, "that sin' we cam' to America we ha'e nae Sabbath ava."
"Ye'll be gaun to do something decent the day, Tam, when we take ye hame?" said Jamie Allan. "I hear ye ha'e two bottles ready for the occasion." "Ay, but I'm damned shair there's no a lick gaun unless ye take me hame," answered Donaldson. "If I ha'e to be creeled, I'll be creeled right, an' every one o' ye'll gang hame wi' me afore ye get a taste."
Guid nicht, me laird, and guid rest till ye," said Auld Saundie, as he withdrew himself and his subordinate from the cell, and locked his prisoner in finally for the night. When he got back to his office he summoned all of his officers around him and spoke to them. "Lads, I ha'e sair misgivings anent yon Laird Vincent.
To what Malcolm said she paid no heed, but stood with her child in her arms and gazed at Kelpie as she went on plunging and kicking about on the top of the dune. "I reckon ye wadna care though the she deevil knockit oot yer harns; but ye ha'e the bairn, woman! Ha'e mercy on the bairn, an' rin to the boddom."
She can hardly pass the time o' day wi' ye she thinks hersel' somethin'." "Very well," Andrew would reply, "maybe ye ha'e mair need o't for other things." And he would pass on to the next house. He had gathered between three and four pounds, contributed sometimes even in pennies, and going to Geordie's house, he knocked at the door.
Macgregor held his peace. They had just arrived in Glasgow, but without a trace of the usual eagerness on his part. 'I believe, said Willie, with an inspiration, 'her an' you ha'e cast oot. 'Clay up! She's awa' her holidays. 'Save us! Awa' her holidays! cried Willie, uttering, unawares, his friend's bitterest thought 'an' we may get oor mairchin' orders ony meenute!
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