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But I grant ye, I was mair nor a wee thocht hungry, and I never kenned afore what a heap o' crumbs a man carried in his pooches when they are a' turned oot!" At Hanover Lodge, in spite of the good will of the Princess, all did not go smoothly.
The very lamplighter, who ran on before, dotting the dusky street with specks of light, and who was dressed to spend the evening somewhere, laughed out loudly as the Spirit passed, though little kenned the lamplighter that he had any company but Christmas!
Naebody in the Glen kenned what infidelity was till he cam' except mebby yon lad o' Silas Todd's, an' the crater's no wise onyway!" Duncan made a feeble attempt to stem the tide. "But these societies, maybe they will be doing good, whatever." This was only fuel to the fire. "His societies! Man, wi' his Y. P. S. C. E. an' his Y. M. C. A. an' his X. Y. Z., fowk's heids are fair turned!
The man sprang to his feet. "In pursuit!" he cried fiercely; "in pursuit! Do ye think Donald Cameron wad be sitting here quietly if he kenned where to look for his daughter where to find the murderers o' his wife? But what can I do? For three days after I cam' back and found what had happened I was just mad.
He glanced up at her with comic shrewdness from where he sat on his hunkers for fine he saw through her and "Ou ay," said he, "ye great muckle fat hotch o' a dacent bodie, ye I'll gang in and have a dish o' tea wi' ye." And away went the fine fuddled fellow. "She's a wise woman that," said the ex-Provost, looking after them. "She kenned no to flyte, and he went like a lamb."
"As to what fetched me, Miss Irma," he said, in answer to questions, "faith, I walked all the road, taking many a house on the way where kenned folk dwelt. Here were pigs to kill and cure. And I killed and cured them. Farther on there were floors to lay, and I laid them, or fish-hooks to busk, and I busked them." I put a question here.
'The thumb-mark of his Maker was wet in the clay of him. Man, it made a quiver go down my spine." "Oh, Bauldy has been a kenned phrase-maker for the last forty year," said Tarmillan. "But every other Scots peasant has the gift. To hear Englishmen talk, you would think Carlyle was unique for the word that sends the picture home they give the man the credit of his race.
The next day being the seuenth of the sayd moneth, we came to the Isles of Aponas, where we put foorth our boat, because we had not past 8. leagues to our hauen, which we kenned very clearly, although the coasts lay very low: and because the night approched, and the wind grew very high, we sought not to seeke our port, because it is very hard to find it when the wind is lofty, because of the shoalds that are about it.
None doubted why the daughter of Hoc bewailed her doom when dawning came, and under the sky she saw them lying, kinsmen murdered, where most she had kenned of the sweets of the world!
The next we kenned he was runnin' verra fast towards the enemy, holdin' his hands ower his heid and crying out loud in a foreign langwidge. 'It was German, said the scholarly Amos through his broken teeth. 'It was Gairman, continued Hamilton. 'It seemed as if he was appealin' to the enemy to help him. But they paid no attention, and he cam under the fire of their machine-guns.
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