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Updated: June 22, 2025
Hech, mon, were ye leevin now, ye might say it at your leisure. DOMINIE McPHAIL. The Dominie was right. It's a lying world. It does not improve with age either. The habit has become chronic, and the worst of all is, that the world has told some lies so often, that it actually now believes them itself. The wretched family propagates, too, at a terrible rate.
Christie smiled proudly, was silent, but did not disown the comparison. The little fishwife, unable to attract attention by pulling, opened her box, and saying, "Lasses, I'll let ye see my presoner. Hech! he's boenny!" pulled out a mouse by a string fastened to his tail and set him in the midst for friendly admiration. "I dinna like it I dinna like it!" screamed Christie.
Christie resumed her book. Then the baddish boy fixed his eye on the fire, and said softly and thoughtfully to the fire, "Hech, what a heap o' troubles yon woman has come through." This stroke of art was not lost. Christie looked up from her book; pretended he had spoken to her, gave a fictitious yawn, and renewed the negotiation with the air of one disposed to kill time.
And M'Brair, opening the door and entering, found the little, round, red man seated in one chair and his feet upon another. A clear fire and a tallow dip lighted him barely. He was taking tobacco in a pipe, and smiling to himself; and a brandy-bottle and glass, and his fiddle and bow, were beside him on the table. "Hech, Patey M'Brair, is this you?" said he, a trifle tipsily.
My mither says she's vara sure he'll be here the morn, begging and praying ye to tak' him in and keep him safe frae his puir auld uncle's ghaist. Hech, sirs! I'll ghaist him, gin' he comes my way." "Now, Sam, keep a civil tongue in your head," quoth my Aunt Kezia, "and don't let me hear of your playing tricks on Mr Parmenter or any one else.
He always says `Hech' when he hits out." "Yes, of course." "Well, wait a bit, sir. Some day I'll pay him back. I'll make him say `Hech' out louder. Hurt you much, sir?" "Only made my arm feel a bit numb. Stop a minute and listen. What's that?" "A splash!" "Some one rowing?" "Croc, perhaps, sir, with his tail." "Then we are close to the river." "Splendid, Mister Archie!
An' gin ye drive them to Jock Thamson's, or Jeemie Deuk's, it'll be just like savin' the word, I dinna inten' 't for sweirin', guid kens! I say it'll just be dammin' them afore their time, like the puir deils. Hech! but it'll come sune eneuch, an' they're muckle to be peetied!"
"Do you know who she is, Saunders?" "It is Peggy, that was cook in your lordship's uncle's time, my lord. She married a green-grocer," added Saunders, with an injured air. "Hech! hech!" cried Flucker, "Christie has ta'en up her head wi' a cook's son." Mrs. Gatty was ushered into the "Peacock" with mock civility by Mr. Saunders.
"Depend on't though I mak' nae pretence to the gift o' prophecy he'll come oot as a bard yet the bard o' Glen Lynden maybe, or Sooth Afriky. Hech, sirs!" added Sandy, pointing with a look of surprise to a tree, many of the pendent branches of which had peculiar round-shaped birds'-nests attached to them, "what's goin' on there, think 'ee?"
But in a few minutes the crowd had dispersed, and the hammock-servers with them, and Alister and I were left alone. I felt foolish, and I suppose looked so, for Alister burst out laughing and said "Hech, laddie! it's a small matter. We'll find a corner to sleep in. And let me tell ye I've tried getting into a hammock myself, and " "Hi! you lads!"
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