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Once, just before the cattle market, he was sent round by a local laird to announce that any drover found taking the short cut to the hill through the grounds of Muckle Plowy would be prosecuted to the utmost limits of the law. The people were aghast. "Hoots, lads," Snecky said; "dinna fash yoursels. It's juist a haver o' the grieve's."
In the daylight it's none so hard to keep the black thoughts under; themselves they're not so daresome; and there's one's pipe, and the haver o' the young fry. But night's the time! Then they come tramplin' along, a whole army of 'em, carryin' banners with letters a dozen feet high, so's you shan't miss rememberin' what you'd give your soul to forget.
"No, I didna," answered Jess, indignantly. Then Hendry slowly undid the knots of the string with which the parcel was tied. He took off the brown paper. "There's yer cloth," he said, "an' here's one an' saxpence for the beads an' the buttons." While Jess still stared he followed me ben the house. "It's a terrible haver," he said, apologetically, "but she had set her heart on't."
"I told the children to let you drink one cup of tea in peace before they bothered you with questions," said she. "I think I know what the questions will be about," said the vicar. He drank the rest of his tea and handed the cup to Philip. "Father! Have you heard Haver Grange is let?" said the boy. "And whom it's let to?" asked Ruth. "And whether there are any children?" asked Norah.
Did old Boswell chase you?" and then he laughed, and turned away from us. His trembling hands seemed to be fighting something from his face. "Bushes," whispered Enoch Haver, and then added, "Now he's climbing up the bank of the ravine."
They were smart enough, he confessed, but they were not what the 46th had been; Crawford had a good carriage on his horse but but he was not "Oh, do not haver, Jock," said the Cornal, angrily at last; "do not haver!
For, in truth, this philosopher, this civilian, is a little jealous of this simple virtue of valour, which he finds in his time, as in the barbaric ages, still in such esteem, as 'the chiefest virtue, and that which most dignifies the haver. He is of opinion, that there may be some other profession, beside that of the sword, worth an honest man's attention; that, if the world were more enlightened, there would be another kind of glory, that would make 'the garland of war' shrivel.
He stood at his own open door looking at these things, and inside his wife Mysie was laying the supper-board with haver bread and cheese and milk. A bright fire blazed on the wide hearth, and half a dozen sheep-dogs spread out their white breasts to the heat.
It is held, That valour is the chiefest virtue, and Most dignifies the haver: IF IT BE, The man I speak of cannot in the world Be singly counterpois'd. Com. Men. First Sen. He cannot but with measure fit the honours Which we devise him. Com. Our spoils he kicked at; And look'd upon things precious, as they were The common muck o' the world. Men. HE'S RIGHT NOBLE; Let him be call'd for. First Sen.
"Oh, Jock," Jean protested, "surely not. I'm not nearly as bad as some of the people here. I don't haver quite so much.... I was in the drawing-room this morning and heard two women talking, an English woman and an American. The English woman remarked casually that Shakespeare wasn't a Christian, and the American protested, 'Oh, don't say. He had a great White Soul." "Gosh, Maggie!" said Jock.
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