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Updated: May 17, 2025
"But what reason am I to gie him for disturbin' him?" asked Alec. "Ow nane ava. Jist tak' a moufu' o' Greek wi' ye to speir the richt meanin' o', gin ye maun hae a rizzon." "That will do just first-rate," said Alec; "for here I have been puzzling over a sentence for the last half hour with nobody but this dim-sighted ghost of a Schrevelius to help me out with it. I'll go directly.
"Weel, jist sit doon there, and carry on frae whaur ye loot sit. Syne efter the three o'clock lecture wha is't ye're atten'in' this session? we'll gang doon to Luckie Cumstie's, and hae a moufu' o' denner she 'll do her best for me an' I'll hae jist a tumler o' toddy but de'il a drap sall ye hae, bantam and de'il a word will I say to ye there.
I had taen twa or three glasses o' a dooms fine tipple they ca' Madeira, an' a moufu' o' cheese that was a'. Weel, I sat doon to my catalogue there, as it micht be here; but I hadna sat copyin' the teetles o' the buiks laid out upo' the muckle table afore me, for mair nor twa minutes, whan I heard a kin' o' a reestlin', an' I thocht it was mice, to whilk I'm a deidly enemy ever sin they ate half o' a first edition o' the Fairy Queen, conteenin' only the first three buiks, ye ken, o' whilk they consumed an' nae doot assimilated ae haill buik and full a half o' anither.
'Yer father winna ate a moufu' gien ye dinna: ye'll see that! Eh, Steenie, she broke out, 'gien ye wad but tak yer supper and gang to yer bed like the lave o' 's! It gars my hert swall as gien 't wud burst like a blob to think o' ye oot i' tho mirk nicht! Wha's to tell what michtna be happenin ye!
"We're no far frae there," says I an' deed I can hardly tell ye, Robert, what garred me say sae, but I jist wantit to ken what that gentleman-brither o' mine was efter; "tak the horse hame," says I "I'll jist loup upo' Black Geordie an' we'll hae a glaiss thegither. I'll stan' treat." Sae he gae me the bridle, an' I lap on. The deevil tried to get a moufu' o' my hip, but, faith!
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