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Updated: June 22, 2025
"Janet, dinna hoast sae loud, woman! You'll waken your brother." Janet was silent. Then she choked trying to stifle another cough. "Woman," said her mother complainingly, "that's surely an unco hoast ye hae!" "Ay," said Janet, "it's a gey hoast."
The grouse came down frae the moors and the rabbits fair played Hamlet about the farms: they were that pined wi' hunger, they began to eat the bark off the ashes and thorn bushes i' the hedges. I did all I could to keep Owd Jerry frae the public-house while the storm lasted, but he would toddle down ivery morning for his glass o' yal, and, of course, he got his hoast back agean i' his thropple.
Gourlay. "Mother!" cried Janet. "Gourlay's dochter may gang on the parish if she likes, but his wife never will. You may hoast yourself to death in a garret in the poorhouse, but I'll follow my boy." The sudden picture of her own lonely death as a pauper among strangers, when her mother and brother should be gone, was so appalling to Janet that to die with her mother seemed pleasanter.
Presently, had any been looking, they might have seen me to start. "We pit a fomentation to his feet," the goodwife was saying, "and a het stane to his wame, and we gied him hyssop and water of pennyroyal, and fine clean balsam of sulphur for the hoast...." "Sir," says I, cutting very quietly in, "there's a friend of mine gone by the house."
They waylaid Grizel, when she was alone, and thus assailed her, she answering not a word. "What's a father?" "She'll soon no have a mither either!" "The Painted Lady needs to paint her cheeks no longer!" "Na, the red spots comes themsels now." "Have you heard her hoasting?" "Ay, it's the hoast o' a dying woman." "The joiner heard it, and gave her a look, measuring her wi' his eye for the coffin.
Your uncle's been in his maist three hours syne, and Robin's ill o' the rheumatize, and he's to his bed too, and sae I had to sit up for ye mysell, for as sair a hoast as I hae." Here she coughed once or twice, in further evidence of the egregious inconvenience which she had sustained. "Much obliged to you, Alison, and many kind thanks." "Hegh, sirs, sae fair-fashioned as we are!
But it's a sair pity o' his hoast, for it aye comes on just when he's at the best o't, and that lang routing he made air this morning, is sair again him too Deil an I care if he wad roar her dumb, and then he wad hae't a' to answer for himsell It's lucky the road's rough, and the troopers are no taking muckle tent to what they say, wi' the rattling o' the horse's feet; but an we were anes on saft grund, we'll hear news o' a' this."
And St. George we cryde, Albeit, we heard, the Spanish Inquisition Was aboord every ship with torture, torments, Whipps strung with wyre, and knives to cutt our throates. But from the armed winds an hoast brake forth Which tare their shipps and sav'd ours. Thus I have read Two storyes to you; one, why Spayne hates us, T'other why we love not them. Oh, sir, I thank you. Ent.
You ken how, when she has a daft fit, she wanders the Den trysting the man that never comes. Has she no been seen at all hours o' the night, Grizel following a wee bit ahint, like as if to take tent o her?" "They say that, and that Grizel canna get her to go home till the daft fit has passed." "Well, she has that kechering hoast and spit now, and so Grizel brings her up here out o' the blasts."
Sir, I may speake; my tongue's unshackled yet, And, were my hands and feete so, on free ground I would mayntayne the honour of this Lady Against an Hoast of such ignoble husbands. Jo. You are condemnd allready by the Law I make no doubt; and therefore speake your pleasure. And here come those fore whom my rage is silent. Enter Ferdinando, Teniente, Guard. Fer.
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