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And since ye say ye are willing to be guided by the Glasgow weaver-body's advice, I am no the man that will refuse it to the son of an auld correspondent, and my father the deacon was nane sic afore me. The mair's the pity mair's the pity.
No. 3253 Private E. Sewell, 2nd Batt. Bedfordshire Regiment, being duly sworn, states: 'I was at the fight at Graspan on June 6, 1901. About noon on that date the Boers attacked the convoy. I retired to Lieutenant Mair's party, when, finding we were outnumbered and surrounded, we put our hands up.
However, as I say, these times of enjoyment were passed and gone with me; the mair's the pity that pleasure should fly sae fast away, and as I could nae make sport I thought I should not mar any; so out I sauntered into the fresh cold air, and sat down behind that old oak, and looked abroad on the wide sea.
"And sae they ha'e committed ye for trial, me laird, mair's the pity; and the puir lassie too; me heart is sair for her," said Auld Saundie Gra'ame, as they were led up to his desk to have their names re-entered upon the prison-books.
After a', nae man is rid o' a difficulty till he's conquered it single-handed for himsel: besides, I'm na poet, mair's the gude hap for you." "Why, then?" "Och, och! they're puir, feckless, crabbit, unpractical bodies, they poets; but if it's your doom, ye maun dree it; and I'm sair afeard ye ha' gotten the disease o' genius, mair's the pity, and maun write, I suppose, willy-nilly.
"Mair's the pity, and then you wouldna be running bull-neck on your death before your time." "None of us can do that, auntie, for heaven is over all." "High words off an empty stomach, my man, so you can just keep them to cool your parridge. But oh, dear oh, dear! You'll forget your puir auld Jane Callender, anyway." "Never, auntie!" "Tut! don't tell me!" "Never!"
They mind me o' last year's early tatties. They're grand when they're gude, but the feck o' them's frostit." "Ay," said the Deacon, "and young Gourlay's frostit in the shaw already. I doubt it'll be a poor ingathering." "Weel, weel," said Tam Wylie, "the mair's the pity o' that, Deacon." "Oh, it'th a grai-ait pity," said the Deacon, and he bowed his body solemnly with outspread hands.
I can tell you a story o' Davie, wi' his Honour's leave: His Honour, ye see, being under hiding in thae sair times the mair's the pity he lies a' day, and whiles a' night, in the cove in the dern hag; but though it 's a bieldy eneugh bit, and the auld gudeman o' Corse-Cleugh has panged it wi' a kemple o' strae amaist, yet when the country's quiet, and the night very cauld, his Honour whiles creeps doun here to get a warm at the ingle, and a sleep amang the blankets, and gangs awa in the morning.
But Josiah didn't like their looks nigh so well as he duz the mair's, and sez he, "That off one looks balky." But I sez, "Distance lends enchantment; the mair can't begin with 'em." The altar piece is said to have cost three million. It is of gold and silver, and full of precious stuns.
As he passed through the kitchen, his wife followed him to the door. "I'm no likly to forget!" he answered; "but there's nae hurry, seem there's no life concernt!" "Na, nane; the mair's the pity!" she answered; and Peter knew, with a glad relief, that his wife was coming to herself from the terrible blow. She sent the cowboy to the Cormacks' cottage, to tell Eppie to come to her.
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