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"Losh, mannie," cried the Shepherd, "if you have Campbell relatives and your mother's name was McGregor, it's likely you are a descendant from old Rob Roy himself, and if so, we're all kinsmen.
"Gin I had the loon that did it," she went on, fumbling, with a haste that defeated itself, at the knot that bound Hawkie's nose to the tail of the cadger's horse "gin I had the loon 'at did it, I wad ding the sowl oot o' his wame, the villain!" "Losh! it's my ain cat, as weel's my ain coo." screamed Lucky Wattles in twofold indignation.
When an advocate forgot himself so far as to say intoxicated, a Drumtochty man might be excused for being upset. "Losh, man," when he had recovered, "hoo cud ony richt-thinkin' man sweer tae sic an awfu' word? Na, na, a' daurna use that kin' o' langidge; it's no cannie." The advocate tried again, a humbler, wiser man. "Was there a smell of drink on him?"
"Well," exploded Sandy, "you'll get some of the good things without Alan, I'm telling you, for there's to be a grand feast at the castle, and everybody is asked to come! There's a sign up in the village, and it's to be Monday at five o'clock. They say Eppie McLean has fowls waiting by the dozen and a barrel of tatties ready for the pot. Losh!
"You were of the party that took him?" "That I was!" answered the boy gleefully. "Losh! but it was fun!" His blue eyes danced with impish delight; a noiseless laugh showed all his strong white teeth. "We went straight to the spot where you and Mistress Patricia saw him by the lightning. There the dogs struck his trail and the fun commenced.
He worked his mouth round and round, to clear the course, as it were, for a sarcasm. "Fowk often say," he continued, "'at 'am quick beyond the ordinar' in seeing the humorous side o' things." Here Tammas paused, and looked at us. "So ye are, Tammas," said Hendry. "Losh, ye mind hoo ye saw the humorous side o' me wearin' a pair o' boots 'at wisna marrows!
It was painfully explained him that he was now in the Seminary, and within that door an anxious school was waiting for him Bailie MacConachie and his address. "Who said I wasna Bailie MacConachie, and that I was a drunken body? And the Bailie was evidently full awake. "Losh keeps, laddies, what am I saying? Family troubles shakes the mind.
'A lang-leggit, prood, landless laird, she would say, with a moist glimmer in her loving eyes, 'wi' the maist ridiculous feet ye ever saw hardly room for the five taes atween the twa! Losh! When Robert went forth into the streets, he was surprised to find how friendly every one was.
"Losh me! that's the minister," said Don. "Yes, all right," he cried aloud, as up came Long John Cameron and the minister, with Fusie and a stranger bringing up the rear. "Fine work, this. You're fine fellows, indeed," cried Long John, "frightening people in this way." "Where is Hughie?" said the minister, sternly. Hughie came from behind the brush, hurriedly wiping his eyes.
She could cook but one thing at a time over the fire, but it was not long before the feast was spread, and they fell to with appetites that caused the food to disappear like dew before the morning sun. "Losh!" said Sandy, rolling over with his feet to the fire, when he could eat no more, "I thought you said you had a rainy day plan, Chief."
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