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The door itself was blazoned with the name of Gideon Gray, M. A. Surgeon, &c. &c. "Half a mutchkin on Luckie Simson!" "Auld Peg Tamson against the field!" "Mair speed, Alison Jaup, ye'll tak the wind out of them yet!" "Canny against the hill, lasses, or we may have a burstern auld earline amang ye!"
The Doctor proceeded to other arrangements; and, for the satisfaction of those readers who may love minute information, we record, that Luckie Simson, the first in the race, carried as a prize the situation of sick-nurse beside the delicate patient; that Peg Thomson was permitted the privilege of recommending her good-daughter, Bet Jamieson, to be wet-nurse; and an oe, or grandchild, of Luckie Jaup was hired to assist in the increased drudgery of the family; the Doctor thus, like a practised minister, dividing among his trusty adherents such good things as fortune placed at his disposal.
'What for wasna ye at the schuil the day? 'I spier ae queston at you, and ye answer me wi' anither. 'Weel, I hae nae hame to gang till. But whaur's yer hame gane till than? 'The hoose is there a' richt, but whaur my mither is I dinna ken. The door's lockit, an' Jeames Jaup, they tell me 's tane awa' the key.
"Instant help, instant help!" screeched rather than uttered, Alison Jaup; while Luckie Simson, who had certainly won the race, found words to claim the prize which had set them all in motion. "And I hope, sir, you will recommend me to be the sick-nurse; I was here to bring you the tidings lang before ony o' thae lazy queans."
Gray, whose character was that of a good-natured simpleton; "Here's Peg Tamson, Jean Simson, and Alison Jaup, running a race on the hie street of the burgh!" He had just reached the door as Luckie Simson, one of the racers, arrived in the little area before it.
"I was with Bauldy when he quarrelled Tam Gibb of Hoochan-doe. Hoochan-doe's a yelling ass, and he threatened Bauldy oh, he would do this, and he would do that, and he would do the other thing. 'Damn ye, would ye threaten me? cried Bauldy. 'I'll gar your brains jaup red to the heavens! And I 'clare to God, sirs, a nervous man looked up to see if the clouds werena spattered with the gore!"
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