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Updated: May 4, 2025
"I am wondering if there would be something to leap up when Helen promised herself to our Hugh," said she. It was the Halflin that brought me word that Betty was not so well, and would I be coming to see her. "What is her complaint?" said I. "It iss the growing-pains, in her old legs, and in the top of her oxters wild, bad, ay, terrible bad."
Gae hame wi' ye afore a' leave the bit, and send a halflin' for some medicine. Ye donnerd idiot, are ye ettlin tae follow Drums afore yir time?" And the medical attendant of Drumtochty continued his invective till Hillocks started, and still pursued his retreating figure with medical directions of a simple and practical character: "A' 'm watchin', an' peety ye if ye pit aff time.
"Man, I have ne'er fought wi' my hands in a' my life not since I was a wean; nor yet felt the pinch of ony pressin' danger to be facit, that I might know how jeopardy sorts wi' my stomach. I became man-grown as a halflin' boy, or e'er you were born yet a starvelin' boy, workin' for bare bread; and hard beset I was for't.
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