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'Then there's summat wrang with th' decrees, that's all, Amos. There's been a mistak' somewhere. 'Hooist, lad! hooist! durnd talk like that. Woe to th' mon that strives wi' his Maker. 'If thi Maker's th' mon thaa maks Him aat to be, I'm noan partic'lar abaat oather His woes or His blessin's. 'No more am I, cried Dan, as he stood up and stretched himself with a yawn.
Pr'a'ps we'll all escape and return to old England together," said one of his comrades. "Arrah! if I did git into wan o' the sandy graves ye spake of," remarked Flynn, "I do belaive I'd rise out of it just for the pleasure o' contradictin' you, Sutherland." "H'm! nae doot. Contradictiousness whiles maks fowk lively that wad be dull an' deed eneuch withoot it.
Because ye see it's no whether shaidows be dear or no that we think muckle or little o' them, but whether we be richt het and tired whan we win till ane o' them. It's that 'at maks the differ." Sorrow herself will reveal one day that she was only the beneficent shadow of Joy. Will Evil ever show herself the beneficent shadow of Good?
But I wasna gaun to lose my fair cousin this way. I followed her to Willie Smith's, whar I was a welcome aneuch guest, and availed mysel to the full o' the advantages which a curious chance had thrown in my way, by eventually makin her my wife; and, as I said before, a most admirable one she made, and still maks, as she is sittin by my elbow at this present writin.
I dinna ken but yours is the bonnier name o' the twa gien it be what Mr Graham tells me the auld poet Chaucer maks o' 't." "What is that?" "Ow, jist the een o' the day. the day's eyes, ye ken. They're sma' een for sic a great face, but syne there's a lot o' them to mak up for that. But saw ye ever sic reid anes, or ony sic a size, my leddy?" "I don't think I ever did.
We do not wish a meal to owe its relish solely to the influence of extreme hunger it must have a beautiful nature all its own, it must exhibit the idea of Thing-in-Itself in an easily assimilable form. Good dinners certainly do not, and I end with this couplet: A douce woman and a fu' wame Maks King and cottar bide at hame.
When we were campaignin' wi' Marlborough oor lads had many a time to sleep wi' the cannon dirlin' aboot them. Ye get us'd to't, ye get us'd to't, as Annapla says aboot bein' a weedow woman. And if ye hae noticed it, Coont, there's nae people mair adapted for fechtin' under diffeeculties than oor ain; that's what maks the Scots the finest sogers in the warld.
"Awa' hame wi' ye," were his parting words. "It's idle scoondrels like you that maks wark for honest folk like me." The morning was not a success, but the strong air had given Dickson such an appetite that he resolved to break his rule, and, on reaching the little town of Kilchrist, he sought luncheon at the chief hotel. There he found that which revived his spirits.
For one thing there were no policemen about, same as you'd see at Roundhay on a Bank Holiday, an' at low side o' t' lake there was a town wi' all maks an' manders o' buildin's; an', what's more, a steel works wi' blast-furnaces. Weel, I were stood there, watchin' t' childer paddlin' about i' t' watter, when somebody clapped his hand on my showder an' sang out: 'Hullo!
Yet you drive him up there every night of the year." "Bad dreams, lad; bad dreams," said the old man, shaking his head with portentous gravity, "forby the boggle of auld Wilson that's maybe what maks Sim ga rakin aboot the fell o' neets without ony eerand."
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