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In 1827 Scott was one day heard saying, as he saw Peter guiding the plough on the haugh: "Egad, auld Pepe's whistling at his darg: if things get round with me, easy will be his cushion!" Old Peter lived until he was eighty-four. He died at Abbotsford in 1854, where he had been well cared for, respected, and beloved by all the members of the family since Sir Walter's death.
Macfadyen, 'hesna hed muckle money spent on his eddication. "A graund field o' barley," he says, and as sure as a 'm stannin' here, it wes the haugh field o' aits. "'He 's frae Glaisgie, was all Elspeth answered, 'and by next Friday we 'll hae his name an' kirk. He said he wes up for a walk an' juist dropped in, the wratch.
Just you look here," cried Dick, and down one of his coarse worsted stockings, he displayed a great bruise on his white leg. "He did that three days ago, and he tried to do it again this morning, only I was too quick for him." "Haugh! haugh-h-haugh!" sighed Solomon in a most dismal tone. "Says he's sorry for it!" cried Tom, grinning.
But the same operation is transacted every where; it is seen upon the plains of Indostan, as in the haughs of Scotland; the Ganges operates upon its banks, and is employed in changing its bed continually as well as the Tweed . The great city of Babylon was built upon the haugh of a river. What is become of that city? nothing remains, even the place, on which it stood, is not known.
On a green "haugh" beneath what is known as the Burnbraes, within a short distance of Lynedoch Cottage, may be seen the carefully-kept double grave of two girls heroines of Scotch song, who died there of the "pest," from which they were fleeing. Mr. Graham was happy in his marriage, though it is said Mrs.
In proportion as the mountains are diminished, the haugh or plain between them grows more wide, and also on a lower level; but, while there is a river running in a plain, and floods produced in the seasons of rain, there can be nothing stable in this constitution of things evidently founded upon change.
The sheriff of the county of Lanark was holding the wappen-schaw of a wild district, called the Upper Ward of Clydesdale, on a haugh or level plain, near to a royal borough, the name of which is no way essential to my story, on the morning of the 5th of May, 1679, when our narrative commences.
The merchant, however, insisted so strongly upon it urging that his own wealth was so large, that, as he had only Maria to inherit it, it was really beyond his wants, or even his power to spend; and that he had, ever since Rupert saved Maria from the attempts of Sir Richard Fulke, which but for him must have succeeded, regarded him as his adopted son Rupert saw that his refusal would really give pain and therefore, with warm gratitude, he accepted the cheque, whose value exceeded that of the united estates of the Haugh and the Chace.
A stranger came to Otter: that was an unfrequent event, even when the spring was advancing, and the boats which had been drawn up for the winter were again launched in the cove, and the brown nets hung anew to dry on the budding whins and gowans the April gowans converting the haugh into a "lily lea."
He was passing within about twenty yards of a tent upon the Haugh, which had a superior appearance to the others it was larger, and the cloth which covered it was of a finer quality; when his attention was arrested by a sound unlike all that belonged to a battle-field the wailing and the cries of an infant!
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