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Updated: May 5, 2025
And we maun think of it together, and come to the problems that are still left together, if we would solve them in the richt way, and wi'oot havin' to spill more blood to do so. When men ha' fought together and deed together against a common foe they should be able to talk together aboot anything that comes up between them, and mak' common cause against any foe that threatens either of them.
He stared at me blankly; then, as the notion dawned on his fuddled brain, his face broke into the vacant drunkard's smile. 'You're the billy, he cried. 'It'll be easy eneuch managed. I've finished that bing o' stanes, so you needna chap ony mair this forenoon. Just take the barry, and wheel eneuch metal frae yon quarry doon the road to mak anither bing the morn.
Suddenly the drums ceased altogether and with it the chanting, and then there arose upon the night silence a low moaning cry that gradually rose into a long-drawn penetrating wail, almost a scream, made by a single voice. Jerry's hand caught Cameron's arm with a convulsive grip. "What the deuce is that?" asked Cameron. "Sioux Indian he mak' dat when he go keel."
But I'll put it plainer: what wad ye du gien a lass was to fa' a greitin', an' a wailin', an' fling hersel' i' yer airms, an' mak as gien she wad dee? what wad ye du wi' her, Cosmo?" "'Deed I dinna ken," replied Cosmo with some embarrassment. "What wad ye hae me du, Aggie?"
The line was crossed on Sunday, and the captain, never thinking, called out to the chief officer to make another Sunday to-morrow. One of the clergymen was Scotch, and Presbyterian at that. "Mak a Sawbath mak the holy Sawbath; ma conscience!"
And thou hast no ill nose For stealing of sheep." "I am true as steel," says Mak. "All men wot it. But a sickness I feel that holds me full hot," and so, he says, he is obliged to walk about at night for coolness. The shepherds are all very weary and want to sleep. But just to make things quite safe, they bid Mak lie down between them so that he cannot move without awaking them.
He called at the Free Kirk manse, the meenister was no' at hame; then to the library, it was closed; then to the Estaiblished manse, the meenister was awa'. At last he obtained a glance at the schoolmaster's dictionary, and turning to 'reproduce' found that it meant 'nought but mak' ower again'; and with an amused smile at the bedevilments of language he turned once more to his loom and I to my canvas.
"Sanders, I canna think to pairt twa fowk sae weel suited to ane anither as you an' Bell." "Canna ye, Sam'l?" "She wid mak' ye a guid wife, Sanders. I hae studied her weel, and she's a thrifty, douce, clever lassie. Sanders, there's no the like o' her. Mony a time, Sanders, I hae said to mysel', 'There's a lass ony man micht be prood to tak'. A'body says the same, Sanders.
The soft "pad" of her moccasined feet first drew his attention, and immediately all thought of the coming storm passed from his mind. "Him big chief wake all up," she announced urgently, as she reached his side. "Did you speak to him?" The man's enquiry was sharpened by responsive eagerness. The squaw nodded. "An-ina say, 'Boss white man officer come mak big talk with big chief, Wanak-aha.
And we've seen them, all about our hoose at Dunoon. We've known what their needs were, and the way to supply them. What we could do we've done. Oh, it's not the siller that counts! If I could but mak' those who have it understand that! It's not charity to sit doon and write a check, no matter what the figures upon it may be.
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