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Updated: June 12, 2025
"Have you got to work?" "Not unless I want to," Young Mocket answered blissfully. "Father, he don't care! Besides" he swelled with pride "I don't work now at the wharf. I'm at Chancellor Wythe's." "Chancellor Wythe's! What are you doing there?" "Helping him. Maybe, by and by, I'll be a lawyer, too." "Heugh!" said the other. "Do you mean you're reading law?" "No-o, not just exactly.
One sure thing is, that all wise men will soon contrive to lay aside inclination when performance grows toilsome. I have hobbled over many a rough heugh in my day no wonder if I must sing at last "Thus says the auld man to the aik tree, Sair failed, hinny, since I kenn'd thee."
Soon the country round about had reason to know of the Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh. For hunger drove the monster out from its cave and it used to devour everything it could come across. So at last they went to a mighty warlock and asked him what they should do.
"Heugh! you horrid, ugly-looking thing," said Wagtail; "you swallowed my fly. Where do you come from? what's your name? who's your father and mother, and what made you so ugly?" "Ugly, indeed," said the pudgy thing; "what do you mean by ugly?
Nor did he relish, though he concealed feelings which would not have been understood, being quite so near the agonies of the expiring salmon, as they lay flapping about in the boat, which they moistened with their blood. He therefore requested to be put ashore, and, from the top of a heugh or broken bank, enjoyed the scene much more to his satisfaction.
"I was from home most of the day, and when I came in, with a hunger sharp-set with half-a-dozen hours struggling with the wind, Bridget bade me be off at once to the Dutchman's Howff, which is in Colvend, just where the Boreland march dyke comes down to the edge of the cliff. I was to wait there on the edge of the heugh till one came and called me by name.
"She's bust within a yard like the shells at Fort Macon." "Bait up, Harve," said Dan, diving for a line on the reel. The schooner seemed to be straying promiscuously through the smother, her headsail banging wildly. The men waited and looked at the boys who began fishing. "Heugh!" Dan's lines twitched on the scored and scarred rail. "Now haow in thunder did Dad know? Help us here, Harve.
Nor did he relish, though he concealed feelings which would not have been understood, being quite so near the agonies of the expiring salmon, as they lay flapping about in the boat, which they moistened with their blood. He therefore requested to be put ashore, and, from the top of a heugh or broken bank, enjoyed the scene much more to his satisfaction.
A descendant from this auspicious union still resides in Castle Feracht, and occasionally relates, with considerable pleasure, the tradition of Coir-nan-Taischatrin. "Word went east, and word went west, And word is gone over the sea, That a Laidley Worm in Spindleston Heugh Would ruin the north countrie.
"Heugh!" said Dick in disgust; "I thought it might a' been soldiers." "I don't want soldiers," replied Emmeline, in a voice of perfect contentment. She unfolded a piece of tissue paper, and took from it a sugar-tongs and six spoons. Then she arrayed the whole lot on the sand. "Well, if that don't beat all!" said Paddy. "And whin are you goin' to ax me to tay with you?"
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