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Her laughter ended, the girl was troubled: she would be scolded for her clumsiness in allowing Hawkie to kick over the pail, but the eagerness of the boy after the milk troubled her more. She told him to wait, and running to the house, returned with two large pieces of oatcake, which she gave him. Thus, one way and another, food came to Gibbie. Drink was to be had in almost any hollow.
"Bigger than Hawkie; bigger than the biggest ox you ever saw." "Has it a great mouth?" "Yes, a terrible mouth." "With teeth?" "Not many, but dreadfully big ones." "Oh!" "Well, there was a shepherd many years ago, who lived not far from the pot. He was a knowing man, and understood all about kelpies and brownies and fairies.
To sneak about the streets and hit girls with snowballs! I scorn you!" "You must have been watching, then, Turkey, and you had no business to do that," I said, plunging at any defence. "I was not watching you. But if I had been, it would have been just as right as watching Hawkie. You ill-behaved creature! You're a true minister's son."
"Well, in this pot there lived a kelpie." "What's a kelpie, Kirsty?" again interposed Allister, who in general asked all the necessary questions and at least as many unnecessary. "A kelpie is an awful creature that eats people." "But what is it like, Kirsty?" "It's something like a horse, with a head like a cow." "How big is it? As big as Hawkie?"
They passed through the little garden, sparkling with dew, and beside the byre, where Hawkie rattled her chain, impatient for Bell's coming, and by Saunders' little strip of corn ready for the scythe, till they reached an open field. There they came to a halt, and Doctor MacLure for once allowed himself to go.
"Hoots, Grizzie! haud yer tongue, my wuman," said the laird, in the gentlest tone, yet with reproof in it. "Ye ken weel it's no my mother wad grudge me the milk ye wad gie me. It was but my'sel' 'at didna think mysel' worthy o' that same, seein' it's no a week yet sin' bonny Hawkie dee'd!" "An' wad ye hae the Lord's anintit depen' upo' Hawkie?" cried Grizzie with indignation.
Gregson's cow quietly feeding off the top of the wall from the other side, like an outcast Gentile; while my father's cows, like the favoured and greedy Jews, were busy in the short clover inside. Grannie's cow managed to live notwithstanding, and I dare say gave as good milk, though not perhaps quite so much of it, as ill-tempered Hawkie. Mrs.
They had to make a hole in her side, or she would have died. There she is off to the turnips!" He was after her with shout and flourish. Hawkie heard and obeyed, turning round on her hind-legs with a sudden start, for she knew from his voice that he was in a dangerously energetic mood. "You'll be all right again soon," he said, coming quietly back to me.
"'Nay, but His presence be near us! said his wife in a low tone of dismay. 'God guide my gudeman's wits: I never heard such a prayer from human lips before. But, Sandie, my man, Lord's sake, rise: what fearful light is this? barn and byre and stable maun be in a blaze; and Hawkie and Hurley, Doddie, and Cherrie, and Damson-plum, will be smoored with reek and scorched with flame.
They passed through the little garden, sparkling with dew, and beside the byre, where Hawkie rattled her chain, impatient for Bell's coming, and by Saunders' little strip of corn ready for the scythe, till they reached an open field. There they came to a halt, and Doctor MacLure for once allowed himself to go.
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