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"In the middle of the night they were roused by the sound of flapping wings, followed by a whispering voice, saying, 'whish ish, which soon broke out into a loud 'Whoo hoo! whoo hoo! They popped their heads out of the hole to see what was the matter, and they perceived a great owl sitting on a stump, flapping its wings up and down, and rolling its great round eyes about, which glared like red-hot coals in its head.
"Ow, 'deed ay! And I'm no my lane, Thamas. But we are tellt that." "The serpent turned oot an ill cooncellor upon ae occasion ower well to be remembert by Adam's race." "The words stan' as I say," persisted James. "Ye're no to mak' the serpent yer cooncellor, man. But ance ye ken yer duty, ye may weel tak example by him hoo to carry 't oot.
"That wad tak a heap o' thinkin'," returned the fisherman; "but ae thing seems aboot plain: ye ha'e no richt to lat yer sister gang exposed to temptations ye cud haud frae her. That's no, as ye promised, to be kin' till her. I canna believe that's hoo yer father expeckit o' ye.
His landlady took charge of his eye, and ministered to it with assiduity and discretion, asking no questions, and courting no confidences, only looking at him comically now and then out of gray motherly eyes, that might have been trusted with the universe. She knew the ways of students. Hoo dinna ye gang up the stair to Mr Cupples, and hae a lauch wi' him?"
They rade an' they ran; the doctor cam', an' the minister, an' the lawyer, an' the grave-digger. But whan a man's deid, what can a' the warl' du for 'im but berry 'im? puir hin'er en' thof it be to him' at draws himsel' up, an' blaws himsel' oot! There was mony a conjectur as to hoo he cam by his deith, an' mony a doobt it wasna by fair play.
Margaret marched across the room and took down a framed photograph from a shelf of the old-fashioned dresser. It represented Her Majesty in royal robes. "This here Canon give me at th' time o' th' Jubilee," she pursued. "I've vallyed it well, I couldn't say how mich I've vallyed it an' do vally it. See here, dunnot hoo look noble?
Onygait, she disna fleg me. 'I left some guid eneuch claes there whan I gaed awa, and I daursay they're i' my room yet gien only I kenned hoo to win at them! 'I s' gang and get them til ye the verra day ye're fit to rise. But ye maunna speyk a word mair the nicht. They held a long consultation that night as to what they must do.
"Finding himself in danger, Choo Hoo, not one whit abashed, instead of fleeing, came before the elders and openly reproached them with misgovernment, cowardice, and the concealment or loss of certain ancient prophecies, which foretold the future power of the wood-pigeons, and which he accused them of holding back out of jealousy, lest they should lose the miserable petty authority they enjoyed on account of their age.
Then he turned on David, seized the stake from his hand, and began furiously belaboring the boy. "I'll teach ye to strike a puir dumb harmless creetur, ye cruel cruel -lad!" he cried. "Hoo daur ye strike ma Wullie? yer father's Wullie? Adam M 'Adam's Red Wull?" He was panting from his exertions, and his eyes were blazing.
I kenna hoo it may be wi' your fowk, my lord." "Well, even with us it means something. It implies at least that he who uses it would risk his life for her whom he wishes to believe it. But perhaps it may mean more than that in the mouth of a fisherman? Do you fancy there is such a thing as devotion real devotion, I mean self sacrifice, you know?" "I daurna doobt it, my lord."
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