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The soul of Dickson hungered at the moment for human companionship. He felt that his courage would be sufficient for any team-work, but might waver again if he were left to play a lone hand. He lunched nobly off three plates of Mrs. Morran's kail an early lunch, for that lady, having breakfasted at five, partook of the midday meal about eleven.
"Yet mark one caution, ere thy next Review Spread its light wings of Saffron and of Blue, Beware lest blundering Brougham spoil the sale, Turn Beef to Bannocks, Cauliflowers to Kail." BYRON, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Barrister, and writer of political pamphlets between 1791 and 1807. Jeffrey's house near Edinburgh.
He had found a place on the eastern side of the village, where, jumping a low earth wail, he got into a little back yard, and was trampling over its few stocks of kail, and its one dusty miller and double daisy, when the woman to whose cottage it belonged caught sight of him through the window, and running out fell to abusing him in no measured language.
It seems as though he might draw on old stores now." "Ay, but out o' the old stores he must bring new matter. The minister's no one that puts his people off with `cauld kail het again, and he canna make sermons and rin here and there at the same time." "And he can't attend to visitors and make sermons at the same time.
It is eith till, that the awn self will. It is good mows that fills the wemb. It is na time to stoup when the head is off. It is fair in the hall, when beards wag all. It will come in an hour, that will not come in a year. If thou do no ill, do no ill like. If he steal not my kail, break not my dike. If he may spend meikle, put the more to the fire.
Here she heaved a sigh, which set the S. S. U. C. to laughing, and began. Wee, crimson-tippet Willie Wink, Wae's me, drear, dree, and dra, A waeful thocht, a fearsome flea, A wuther wind, and a'. Sair, sair thy mither sabs her lane, Her een, her mou, are wat; Her cauld kail hae the corbies ta'en, And grievously she grat. Ah, me, the suthering of the wind! Ah, me, the waesom mither!
And he took the goddess in his arms, and set her as she sobbed upon his knee, and rose from the peak of Kail
"Hence, in giving a friendly invitation to dinner, it is common to say, 'Will you come and tak your kail wi' me? This, as a learned friend observes, resembles the French invitation, Voulez vous venir manger la soupe chez moi!"
From Ceres they passed on over a level plain occasionally passing a kail or cottage. At some places on the road the natives sold them hot coffee and cakes. The country over which they traveled was thinly populated. Occasionally a tramping adventurer or two would come with the wagons, all heading in the same direction.
It was thought, however, by a certain pious protestant gentlewoman of Irvine, that before his death he got a cast of grace; for one day, when he had been carried over to beg in that town, she gave him a luggie of kail ower het, which he stirred with the end of the ebony crucifix at his girdle, thereby showing, as she said, a symptom that it held a lower place in his spiritual affections than if he had been as sincere in his errors as he let wot.
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