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"Nae doot Glen Lynden has come off better than ither places, for we've managed to haud oor ain no' that ill, but wae's me for the puir folk o' the low country! We've taken a gude slice o' land frae the thievin' craters, for it's said Sir Benjamin D'Urban has annexed all the country between the Kei and the Keiskamma to the colony.
"We bid ye welcome, moderator," began the senior elder, by name Sandy Grant, "an' we'll do what in us lies to haud up yir hands; ye're no' oor servant, but oor minister, and we're a' ready to do yir biddin', gin it's the will o' God. Ye're sittin' in a michty seat, moderator. It was frae that chair that oor first minister spak' till us in far ither days."
And as it was, just when they got haud of my arm to have me out of the fray, I got the lick that donnerit me from a left- handed lighterman." Master George looked to the apprentices as if to demand the truth of this story. "It is just as he says, sir," replied Jenkin; "only I heard nothing about pigs.
The proper specific name for this river has never, to my knowledge, been given; but the Jid Ali Tug is one of its head branches. It rises in some small hills close overhanging the north coast, and runs south-easterly into the Indian Ocean, dividing two large territories, called Ugahden, or Haud, on the west, and Nogal on the east, mouthing at Ras Ul Khyle.
In the old ballad on the Battle of Bothwell Bridge, Claverhouse is said to have continued the slaughter of the fugitives in revenge of this gentleman's death. "Haud up your hand," then Monmouth said; "Gie quarters to these men for me;" But bloody Claver'se swore an oath, His kinsman's death avenged should be.
Put a ring in's nose gin ye like, only haud oot ower frae's tail. So away went Alec northwards, over the blue-gray waters, surgeon of the strong barque Sea-horse. Two days after Alec's departure, Mr Bruce called at Howglen to see Annie. "Hoo are ye, Mistress Forbes? Hoo are ye, Miss Anderson?
I haena a morsel in the house, and hae na siller to buy meal. But yer faither is aboot finished wi' the web, and ye shall hae plenty the nicht. "Then the bits o' dear creatures would hae come runnin' ben to me, and asked 'Faither, when will the web be ready? "'Soon, soon, hinnies! said I, half choked wi' grief and blind wi' tears; 'haud awa' oot and play yoursels!
"And I say," cried Mause, in the same tune, and nearly at the same time, "that wi' this auld breath o' mine, and it's sair taen down wi' the asthmatics and this rough trot" "Deil gin they would gallop," said Cuddie, "wad it but gar her haud her tongue!"
Sandy was berfit, an', I'm shure, if ye'd seen him! Haud your tongue! Ye never saw sic a picture. I suppose he'd taen aff his buits no' to mak' a noise.
But a minister, and a fine, young-looking man, I think ye said," continued Mistress Walter Skirving anxiously. "Indeed, grandmother, I said nothing " began Winsome. "Haud yer tongue, Deil's i' the lassie, he'll be comin' here. Maybes he's comin' up the loan this verra meenit. But bring me my kep haste ye fast, lassie!"
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