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Updated: May 31, 2025
Jog on, jog on, the footpath way, And merrily hent the stile-a: A merry heart goes all the day, A sad one tires in a mile-a. Winter's Tale.
She hent down to him, and gently lifting his head, looked with an indescribable expression of happiness and love deep into his beaming eyes. "Do you love me?" asked Seymour, as he put his arm softly around her slender waist, and arose from his kneeling attitude. "I love you!" said she, with a firm voice and a happy smile.
'Tis as the lightning flash erewhile bright glittered o'er the camp * And died in darkling air no more to be for ever shown." And he repented when repentance availed him naught, and wept and rent his raiment. Then he hent in hand two stones and went round about the city, beating his breast with the stones and crying "O Zumurrud!" whilst the small boys flocked round him, calling out, "A madman!
There's naething I like better; it's that refreshin', especially if you've somebody to crack till when you're at it. An', I'll swag, we didna weary for want o' crackin' that efternune. The Gairner's wife an' Mysie Meldrum are twa awfu' tagues for tongue; an' some o' the rest o's werena far to the hent, I'm dootin'.
Sandy ga'e him a clap on the hurdles to quieten him, but aye the hent feet o' him played skelp on the boddom o' the cairt, till I thocht he wudda haen't ca'd a' to bits. Syne awa' he gaed full bung a' o' a sudden, wi' Sandy rowin' aboot amon' the tatties, an' hingin' in by the reinds, roarin', "Wo! haud still," an' so on.
Ye have today made me hear abuse from an unmannerly carle such as I loathe; and by Allah, I will not speak a word nor sit with you, till ye put yonder quarrelsome churl out from among you! Quoth the fellow's companion to him, 'This is what I warned thee against, fearing for thy good name. So they hent him by the hand and thrust him out; and I took the lute and sang over again the songs of my own composing which the damsel had sung.
"Here it is," answered Sabbah and, throwing him the targe, bared his brand and rushed at him sword in hand; Kanmakan hent the buckler in his right and began to fend himself with it, whilst Sabbah struck at him, saying at each stroke, "This is the finishing blow!"
So the headsmen put his hand to her back, to take her; but the King cried out at him and cast at him somewhat he hent in hand, which had well-nigh killed him, saying, "O dog, how durst thou show ruth to those with whom I am wroth? Put thy hand to her hair and drag her along by it, so that she may fall on her face."
Thereupon she took the lute and struck the strings, after she had screwed them tight and tuned them, and sang these improvised verses, "The fawn of a maid hent her lute in hand * And her music made us right mettlesome: For her song gave hearing to ears stone-deaf, * While Brava! Brava! exclaimed the dumb."
"Jog on, jog on the footpath way, And merrily hent the stile-a: A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad one tires in a mile-a." The footpath takes you across the farms and behind the houses; you are admitted to the family secrets and form a personal acquaintance.
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