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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!
Every spoke of the wheels blazed with red geraniums; there was a fringe of heather along the edge of the cart, while vegetables, huge marrows, turnips, carrots, and onions dangled from its sides, and the people inside sat under a nodding canopy of tall and splendid wheat, mixed with feathery barley. But the passengers were perhaps the most attractive thing about it.
Marrows remembered that he had been out to the Ledge himself when the Screamer came up into the wind and crawled slowly up until her forefoot was within a biscuit toss of the stone pile. What Marrows forgot was that Captain Bob Brandt of Cape Ann had then held the spokes of the Screamer's wheel, a man who knew every twist and turn of the treacherous tide.
Harry had sung solos then ten years ago. She remembered his pale blue tie, and the purple asters and the great vegetable marrows in which he was framed, and her cousin Luther at her side, young, clever, come down from London, where he was getting on well, learning his Latin and his French and German so brilliantly.
"Aaron," said Tommy, in the hush that had fallen on that house since quiet Elspeth left it, "I have never thanked you in words for all that you have done for me and Elspeth." "Dinna do it now, then," replied the warper, fidgeting. "I must," Tommy said cheerily, "I must"; and he did, while Aaron scowled. "It was never done for you," Aaron informed him, "nor for the father you are the marrows o'."
'It's a fluiker, ki Dick; 'No, ki Matt, 'its owre big, It luik'd mair like a skyet when aw furst seed it rise; Kiv aw for aw'd getten a gliff o' the wig 'Ods marcy! wey, marrows, becrike, it's Lord 'Size.
Marrows, a faded old woman with bleached eyes and a pursed-up mouth, her shawl hooding her head and pinned close under her chin with her thumb and forefinger, had begged Captain Joe to try the Susie Ann for a few loads until Abram could "ketch up," and had heard his promise to help her. But they made no protest.
Well, at six o'clock of a rainy afternoon, she was seized with an unaccountable desire for vegetable marrows, and Mr. 'Eaven put the pony in the cart and went to Woodmucket for them, which is a great advantage to be so near a town and yet 'ave the quietude." Mr. Heaven is merged, like Mr. Jellyby, in the more shining qualities of his wife. A line of description is too long for him.
They're juist the very marrows o' ane anither; an' if you cairry the lines at the side o' them here a bit farrer doon, an' get in ablo the boddam o' the triangle, ye'll find that the corners aneth the boddam are juist the very marrows o' ane anither too. D'ye see?" "Ay, Sandy," I says, says I, "you'll better awa' an get Donal' yokit.
I cannot say when he first determined that Jess should have a cloak, come the money as it liked, for he was too ashamed of his weakness to admit his project to me. I remember, however, his saying to Jess one day: "I'll warrant you could mak a cloak yersel the marrows o' thae eleven and a bits, at half the price?" "It would cost," said Jess, "sax an' saxpence, exactly.
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