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"Scoundrels!" said Morton; "why do they not make terms for all in the Castle?" "They are fear'd for denial o' quarter to themsells, having dune sae muckle mischief through the country; and Burley has hanged ane or twa o' them already sae they want to draw their ain necks out o' the collar at hazard o' honest folk's."
The cairt appeared to be haudin' him up, raither than him haudin' up the cairt; an' he was restin' the thrawn legs o' him time aboot, juist like a cock stanin' amon' snaw. "Ye shudda left that billie at the knackers at Glesterlaw, Sandy," says I, I says. "I'm dootin' ye'll ha'e back to tak' him there afore him or you's muckle aulder." "Tyach! Haud your lang tongue," says Sandy.
"What will ye be or ye behaud!" he exclaimed, after a brief pause of astonishment. "Do you ever dance in this part of the country?" she asked, heedless of his surprise. "No that muckle, at least amo' the fisherfowks, excep' it be at a weddin'. I was at ane last nicht." "And did you dance?" "'Deed did I, my leddy. I danced the maist o' the lasses clean aff o' their legs." "What made you so cruel?"
I'd nowt to think of but the wee laddie, and there was time enow before it would be richt to be sending him off time enow for me to earn as muckle siller as he micht need. Why should he no be a gentleman? His blood was gude on both sides, frae his mither and frae me. And, oh, I wish ye could ha' seen the bonnie laddie as his mither and I did!
I've talked a muckle i' this book aboot what I think. Do you know why? It's because I'm a plain man, and I think the way plain men think all ower this world. It was the war taught me that I could talk to folk as well as sing tae them. If I've talked tae much in this book you maun forgie me and you maun think that it's e'en yor ain fault, in a way.
A scream from the women brought Muckle John out of his rhapsodies. He stared blankly at the slim girl who confronted him with hand on hip. "What seekest thou here, thou shameless woman?" he roared. "I am come," said she, "for my tirewoman, Janet Somerville, who left me three days back without a reason.
One day? why, it's not an hour Man and horse? why, 'tis a monkey on a starved cat!" "Father wad hae come himsell," said Davie, "on the muckle red mear, an ye wad hae bidden till the morn's night." "Four-and-twenty hours after the regular date of delivery! You little cockatrice egg, do you understand the art of imposition so early?"
Special warning is included as to encountering friendly submarines. It appears to me that a special concentration of U-boats is being ordered round about the Orkneys, and that some big scheme is on hand. We are now steering south-westerly to make Muckle Flugga, which I hope to do in four days' time if the weather holds.
"Sal," Susy said, "it's a guid thing we've settled, for I enjoyed sitting like a judge upon them so muckle that I sair doubt it was a kind o' sport to me." "It was no sport to them, Susy, I'se uphaud, but it is a blessing we've settled, and ondoubtedly we've got the pick o' them. The only thing Mr. Dishart did that made me oneasy was his saying the word Caesar as if it began wi' a k."
Threescore years and ten, to use his own words, "Hung o'er his back, And bent him like a muckle pack,"
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