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Od, ye are a clever birkie! The woman touched his coat again. 'The gentleman is a gentleman, Willie ye maunna speak that gate to him, hinnie. 'The deevil I maunna! said Willie; 'and what for maunna I? If he was ten gentles, he canna draw a bow like me, can he?
A voice by my bedside whispered, in a whining tone, 'Whisht a-ye, hinnie Whisht a-ye; haud your tongue, like a gude bairn ye have cost us dear aneugh already. My hinnie's clean gane now. Knowing, as I thought, the phraseology of the wife of the itinerant musician, I asked her where her husband was, and whether he had been hurt.
'And ye ken mickle less of my hinnie, sir, replied Maggie, 'that think he needs ony guiding; he's the best guide himsell that ye'll find between Criffell and Carlisle. Horse-road and foot-path, parish-road and kirk-road, high-road and cross-road, he kens ilka foot of ground in Nithsdale. 'Aye, ye might have said in braid Scotland, gudewife, added the fiddler.
"Non-conformity, hinnie," sighed Mause, "is the name that thae warldly men gie us." "Weel, aweel we'll hae to gang to a far country, maybe twall or fifteen miles aff. I could be a dragoon, nae doubt, for I can ride and play wi' the broadsword a bit, but ye wad be roaring about your blessing and your grey hairs."
'Broken limbs I wish, answered the beldam, 'that my hinnie had broken the best bane in his body, before he had broken his fiddle, that was the best blood in Scotland it was a Cremony, for aught that I ken. 'Pshaw only his fiddle? said I. 'I dinna ken what waur your honour could have wished him to do, unless he had broken his neck; and this is muckle the same to my hinnie Willie and me.
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