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"Fash na yer heid, Saunders, aboot them," said the old betheral at the door; "it's me that's to be grave-digger, but ye shall howk them a' the same in the mornin', an' get the siller, for I'm far ower frail ye can hae them a' by afore nine o'clock, an' the minister disna pu' up his bedroom blind till ten!"
"Eh! that his puir mother, that died of grief and in doubt about him, had but lived to see this day!" exclaimed some female voices. "But we'll help him to his ain, kimmers," cried others; "and before Gossin shall keep the Place of Ellangowan, we'll howk him out o't wi' our nails!"
So you ken what it means, when a gaffer carries on like that, an' the man is saft enough as weel as the woman being willin'. Tam got my contracts this week, an' I have to gang back into a common place and howk coals. "Weel, the wife couldna' stand being slighted like thet, an' Granger's wife had been tantalizin' her too, you ken hoo women rave when they are slighted.
An' let me see there's the thorn where the cushats biggit; an' there's the auld birk that I ance fell aff an' left my shoe sticking i' the cleft. I can tell ye, birkies, either the deer's grave or bonny Jane Ogilvie's is no twa yards aff the place where that horse's hind-feet are standin'; sae ye may howk, an' see if there be ony remains."
'Eh! that his puir mother, that died in grief and in doubt about him, had but lived to see this day! exclaimed some female voices. 'But we'll help him to his ain, kimmers, cried others; 'and before Glossin sail keep the Place of Ellangowan we'll howk him out o't wi' our nails!
His companion took up a fragment of stone, examined it, shook his head, then proceeded to 'howk' out with his stick a stone of some size lying half-bedded in the earth at the bottom of the hole. He levered it away, and it rolled over on its side; something glittered beneath. 'Ha! an aureus! cried the attorney, and dashed upon it.
'Eh! that his puir mother, that died in grief and in doubt about him, had but lived to see this day! exclaimed some female voices. 'But we'll help him to his ain, kimmers, cried others; 'and before Glossin sail keep the Place of Ellangowan we'll howk him out o't wi' our nails!
Mair by token, Monkbarns, if ye howk up the bourock, as ye seem to have began, yell find, if ye hae not fund it already, a stane that ane o' the mason-callants cut a ladle on to have a bourd at the bridegroom, and he put four letters on't, that's A. D. L. L. Aiken Drum's Lang Ladle for Aiken was ane o' the kale-suppers o' Fife."
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