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Updated: June 13, 2025
Sae I'll jist bide theroot wi' the bonny stars 'at's aye theroot, and kens a' aboot it, and disna think nane the waur o' me. 'Laddie! laddie! wha on the face o' God's yerth thinks the waur o' ye for a wrang dune ye? though wha has the wyte o' that same I daurna think, weel kennin 'at a'thing's aither ordeent or allooed, makin muckle the same.
"It willna be amiss ye should ken," said Cuddie to his master, "that this Jenny this Mrs Dennison, was trying to cuittle favour wi' Tam Rand, the miller's man, to win into Lord Evandale's room without ony body kennin'. She wasna thinking, the gipsy, that I was at her elbow."
"No, mem 'cep' by sicht o' ee; he hasna been lang aboot the toon. Some fowk sae he's dementit; but he's unco quaiet, speyks to nobody, an' gien onybody speyk to him, jist rims. Cud he be kennin' you, no? Ye 're a stranger here, mem." "No sic a stranger, John!" returned Miss Horn, calling the man by his name, for she recognized him as the beadle of the parish church. "What 's the body like?"
"I don't know what you mean by that, Malcolm." "I mean, mem, 'at a blin' man, like my gran'father, canna ken himsel' richt, seein' he canna ken ither fowk richt. It's by kennin' ither fowk 'at ye come to ken yersel, mem isna't noo?" "Blindness surely doesn't prevent a man from knowing other people.
My neighbor is no' meant to lift it seemingly. Look at the start they've gi'en him, an' young Rundell starts at the limit." "Ay!" said Matthew. "It's no' fair. It's some o' Black Jock's doings. He's meanin' young Rundell to wun it." "Ay, it looks like it; but it's fashious kennin' what may happen.
He lifted up his finger solemnly: "Dinna ye ever think that ye can gang intil a public hoose withoot yer wife kennin'. Na, it's no the smell, as an unmarrit man micht think; and peppermints is a vain thing, also ceenimons. It's juist their faculty aye, that's what it is it's a faculty they hae; an' they're a' alike.
You have lightened a great burden from my heart, and I will not forget it either," and as he showered his protestations of gratitude on the head of the gratified matron, he bowed himself out, and beat a hasty retreat back to his carriage. "Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman. Tho' they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human." Burns.
My lord, wad ye jist say a word to my leddy, or I'll be forced to tak the tiller frae her." But by and by she grew weary of the attention required, and, giving up the helm, began to seek the explanation of its influence, in a way that delighted Malcolm. "Ye'll mak a guid skipper some day," he said: "ye spier the richt questions, an' that's 'maist as guid 's kennin' the richt answers."
'Of course not. 'Syne ye wad be yer ain God, Mr. Ericson. 'Yes. That would follow. 'I canna imagine a waur hell closed in amo' naething wi' naething a' aboot ye, luikin' something a' the time kennin' 'at it 's a' a lee, and nae able to win clear o' 't. 'It is hell, my boy, or anything worse you can call it. 'What for suld ye believe that, than, Mr. Ericson?
"'But, says I, 'maybes ye wad be the better o' kennin' that the kye's eatin' your washin' up on the loan. I saw Provost Weir's muckle Ayreshire halfway through wi' yer best quilt, says I. "She flung up her hands. "'Save us! she cries; 'could ye no hae said that at first?
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