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Andy and Jamie was among them aye, Jamie the woman hater, the bashfu' yin! And, wad ye believe it, it was Jamie hung on and on when all the ithers had gie'n up the chase and left the field to Andy? She liked them both richt weel; that much we could all see. But noo it was that Andy found oot that he'd been spending what he had wi' tae free a hand.
The ithers are i' my room." "Get them, Christine." Christine returned in a few minutes pale-faced and empty-handed. "They are not there, John, nor yet i' thy kist." "I thought sae." "Then God help me, sister! I know not where they are." Even Bailie Inkster looked doubtful and troubled at this circumstance.
"Puir Jamie, puir fallow; and hoo is he standin't oot?" I assured him that he was bearing his fate manfully, but that he had been in the service of a remorseless master. "Ay, I ken him," said Lawson. "A man that's no gude to his ain canna be gude to ithers." "You must speak of him now, however, in the past tense," said I. "Mr. is dead." "Dead!" exclaimed Lawson, with much surprise.
Why does Arch-Bishop Elder inhibit the round dance even in day-light? Mr. and Mrs. ECHO and their girls and boys will please answer why? And why has he inhibited all kinds of dancing after dark? Will some member of the same family please rise and explain? "Oh wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us."
"'O wad some power the giftie gie us," chanted Bea's tongue between clicks, "'To see oursels as ithers see us, It wad fra mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion." Then as Berta took a threatening step in her direction, she broke into a run. "I think I'll take some exercise now," she called back mockingly as she fled up the stairs.
"O, my dear, that'll no dae!" said Kirstie. "It's ill to blend the eyes of love. O, Mr. Erchie, tak a thocht ere it's ower late. Ye shouldna be impatient o' the braws o' life, they'll a' come in their saison, like the sun and the rain. Ye're young yet; ye've mony cantie years afore ye. See and dinna wreck yersel' at the outset like sae mony ithers!
But upon very few is the "giftie" bestowed, "to see oursel's as ithers see us," and to many besides the junior Mr. Rutherford, such a vision would be anything but satisfactory. At the present time, however, Rutherford's only troubles were his immediate surroundings, and the problem of how to pass the next three hours.
But naething would satisfy Tam Dale, till ane o' them had startit on aheid to stand sentry on the boat. The ithers askit if he was for down again. "Na," says he, "and neither you nor me," says he, "and as sune as I can win to stand on my twa feet we'll be aff frae this craig o' Sawtan."
This was a death-blow to Sandy's prospects and my hopes. He wasna seventeen at the time, and his widowed mother had five bairns younger. He was the only ane in the family that she could look up to as a bread-winner. It was about harvest; and, when the shearing commenced, he went out wi' ithers and took his place on the rig.
"I am a year older, I believe," she answered, "but I cannot help it. Nor would I if I could, for three years ago I was still less worthy of him than I am now; and after all it is but a trifle." "Na, my leddy, it's no a trifle, only some fowk carry their years better nor ithers."
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