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Updated: June 10, 2025
'The costs are ower big, even if ye found the minerals, for ye'd have to import a' your labour. The West Hielandman is no fond o' hard work. Ye ken the psalm o' the crofter? O that the peats would cut themselves, The fish chump on the shore, And that I in my bed might lie Henceforth for ever more! 'Has it ever been tried? I asked. 'Often.
"I never had naething to do with onything morally wrong; and I'm no gaun to begin to pleasure a wild Hielandman." "Ye're unco scrupulous," sneered Alan. "I'm a man o' principle," said Ebenezer, simply; "and if I have to pay for it, I'll have to pay for it. And besides," says he, "ye forget the lad's my brother's son." "Well, well," said Alan, "and now about the price.
The garrison and our ain horse could hae taen Rob Roy easily enough. There's the hand," he said, holding up his own, "should lay him on the green, and never ask a Hielandman o' ye a' for his help." "Ye might hae loot us bide still where we were, then," said Inverashalloch. "I didna come sixty miles without being sent for.
It's a great pity of Evan Dhu, who was a very weel-meaning, good-natured man, to be a Hielandman; and indeed so was the Laird o' Glennaquoich too, for that matter, when he wasna in ane o' his tirrivies.
It's a great pity of Evan Dhu, who was a very weel-meaning, good-natured man, to be a Hielandman; and indeed so was the Laird o' Glennaquoich too, for that matter, when he wasna in ane o' his tirrivies.
"Devilish serious, I assure you, and so they found it; for the Chevalier and I " "Then I don't like it at all," said Bucklaw; "so fill a brimmer of my auld auntie's claret, rest her heart! And, as the Hielandman says, Skioch doch na skiall." "That was what tough old Sir Even Dhu used to say to me when I was out with the metall'd lads in 1689.
I remember one began: What do ye want the bluid of, bluid of? Is it a name, or is it a clan, Or is it an aefauld Hielandman, That ye want the bluid of, bluid of? Another went to my old favourite air, The House of Airlie, and began thus: It fell on a day when Argyle was on the bench, That they served him a Stewart for his denner.
The garrison and our ain horse could hae taen Rob Roy easily enough. There's the hand," he said, holding up his own, "should lay him on the green, and never ask a Hielandman o' ye a' for his help." "Ye might hae loot us bide still where we were, then," said Inverashalloch. "I didna come sixty miles without being sent for.
For Donald was a belated Highlander, his parents having lapsed to the lowlands, where birth took him at a disadvantage; but he was ever struggling to recover Inverness. "I was a hielandman afore I was born and a lowlandman after. I kind o' flawed doon like, ye ken," he said.
See ye neither meddle nor mak, nor gie nae offence wi' that clavering tongue o' yours, but keep a calm sough, and let ilka cock fight his ain battle." "Muckle needs to tell me that," said Andrew, contemptuously, "as if I had never seen a Hielandman before, and ken'd nae how to manage them.
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