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They've been after t' winders, and after t' vittle, and after t' very saut to 't; it's dearer by hauf an' more nor it were when a were a boy: they're a meddlesome set o' folks, law-makers is, an' a'll niver believe King George has ought t' do wi' 't.
Just think o' Sim gettin' the dirty gae-bye frae a glaikit lassie hauf his age; and no' his equal in the three parishes, wi' a leg to tak' the ee o' a hal dancin'-school, and auld Knapdale's money comin' till him whenever Knapdale's gane, and I'm hearin' he's in the deid-thraws already. Ill fa' the day fotch the Frenchy!
"Sir," said he, with some feeling, "there was never bed nor board grudged at Doom. It's like father like son a' through them. The Baron's great-gutcher, auld Alan, ance thought the place no' braw enough for the eye o' a grand pairty o' Irish nobeelity that had bidden themsel's to see him, and the day they were to come he burned the place hauf doon.
Take, for instance, Master Holofernes's vituperation of Don Adrian de Armado in Love's Labour Lost, and see what you can make of it: 'I abhor such phantasms, such insociable and point-devise companions, such rackers of orthography, as to speak dout fine, when he should say doubt; det, when he should pronounce debt; d, e, b, t; not d, e, t; he clepeth a calf, cauf; half, hauf; neighbour vocatur nebour; neigh abbreviated ne: this is abominable, which we would call abhominable. Such a passage is curious, coming from one of whom it was asked: 'Monsieur, are you not lettered? and answered: 'Yes, yes; he teaches boys the Horn-book.
"I sit on my creepie, and spin at my wheel, And I think on the laddie that lo'ed me sae weel; He had but ae sixpence, he brake it in twa, And gied me the hauf o' t when he gaed awa'. He said, think na lang lassie tho' I gang awa'. I'll come and see you in spite o' them a'" Logie O Buchan.
"It doesna matter what kind o' terms you get, you're never content." "I'm no' content wi' thae terms ony way," persisted Davie stubbornly. "What the hell's the use o' makin' a demand for something, an' sayin' afore you gang that you mean to hae it, an' then to tamely tak' the hauf o' it, an' gang awa' hame as pleased as a wheen weans wha have been promised a penny to tak' castor oil?
'Eh? The note of innocence satisfied her. 'Weel, she said graciously, 'I forgive ye. 'What for? 'Takin' liberties. Her lips wavered to a smile and he could not refrain from kissing them once more. 'Here, hauf time! she cried, and burst out laughing. 'This is the best yet, he said jubilantly. 'Three goals in twa meenutes! In future I'll kiss ye as often as I like.
It's juist as weel, seein' the biler's gone wrang. I suppose I'd better gie the laddie a piece?" "Yes, and a penny." Then Jean remembered her new possessions. "No, give him this, please, Mrs. M'Cosh." Mrs. M'Cosh received the coin and gasped. "Hauf a croon!" she said. "Silver," said Pamela, "is to be no more accounted of than it was in the days of Solomon!"
Miss Brandt was here about hauf an hour ago," he added, with unmoved face; to think of any man, even so ancient a man as old Hamish, being able to state a fact so great as that with unmoved face!
I told her that we had to get it once a week from a man who came all the way from Stretford into Manchester, with a large basketful upon his head, crying "Woat cakes, two a penny!" "Two a penny!" said she; "why, they'll not be near as big as these, belike." "Not quite," replied I. "Not quite! naw; not hauf t' size, aw warnd!
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