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"I'll see that the old parson gets it, Morrison," said Atkins huskily; "he'll do more good with it than a man like me." "Man," said the old engineer, as he lifted his kindly grey eyes to the second mate, "ye're welcome to it. I wish it were a thousand, for ye're a grand sailor man, wi' a big heart, and maybe ye hae some good woman waiting for ye; and a hunner and sixty pound is no sma' help to "
I heard Wiston, the coal-maister, had gien him five hunner pounds on the quiet." "I heard that too," replied Matthew, "but, like you, I'm loth to think it o' Smillie. I'd believe it quicker aboot yon ither chiel, Charlie Rogerson. He comes oot to speak to us ay dressed in a black dress-suit, wi' white cuffs doon to his finger nebs, his gold ring, his lum hat, an' a' his fal-de-lals."
"The hunner an' fifty-first psalm," repeated George, "from the fifteent verse. An' syne we'll gang hame. My closed lips, O Lord, by thee, Let them be opened."
I hae a stack o' oats to thrash oot; a bit o' a fauld dyke to build; twa acres o' the holme to ploo; the new barn to theek; the lea-field to saw wi' wheat; the turnips to bring in; the taties to bing; forbye a hunner ither things that can on nae account stan owre. Impossible, my dear sir impossible. Juist wholly oot the question.
It were all in hunner dollah bills, an' thu ole woman cached 'em in thu mattrass of her baid. Thu mattrass were stuffed with wild hay, an' one day when thu ole woman were out pickin' Oregan grape an' osho-root fer thu ole man's rheumatiz, a burro loafered into camp an' et up thu hull shootin' match!
"Oo ay!" said he, in a voice of quiet contempt, "the twa hunner wull be here and 'twull wait ye long eneuch, I'se warrant ye." Then Bill nailed him. "I hain't got my card case on my person," he said, with a slight grin. "Left it on the pianner," suggested Hi, who was in a state of great hilarity at Bill's success in drawing the Scottie. "Nae matter tae me.
There's the enterest for twa an' a half�-ca' 't three years�-at what I could mak' o' 't�-say aucht per cent�-four and twenty poun'. Syne there's her arrears o' interest�-and syne there's the loss o' the ower-turn�-and syne there's the loss o' the siller that ye winna hae to len' me.�-Gin ye gie me a quittance for a hunner an' fifty poun', I'll gie her a receipt.�-It'll be a sair loss to me!"
"I believe you, sir," answered James; "but," he went on, with an attempt at humour, "it wouldn't be so much for you to do after all, seeing you would straightway find yourself in a much better place!" "Maybe whaur the penitent thief sat, some auchteen hunner year ago, waitin to be called up higher!" rejoined the soutar with a watery smile.
They have no right to hold the witnesses; but am I to get a sight of them, that should be as free as the Lord Justice Clerk himself? See read: For the rest, refuses to give any orders to keepers of prisons who are not accused as having done anything contrary to the duties of their office. Anything contrary! Sirs! And the Act of seventeen hunner! Mr. Balfour, this makes my heart to burst.
There was a sair fyke in the beginning, but the governor, seeing him resolved, gied him his discharge, and he went and dwallt and merried in North Berwick, and had aye a gude name with honest folk free that day on. It was in the year seeventeen hunner and sax that the Bass cam in the hands o' the Da'rymples, and there was twa men soucht the chairge of it.
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