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'My part to replace your horse's shoe, you rascal! said Waverley, mistaking the purport of the intimation. 'Indubitably, answered Mr. Cruickshanks; 'though there was no preceese clause to that effect, it canna be expected that I am to pay for the casualties whilk may befall the puir naig while in your honour's service. Nathless, if your honour
'My part to replace your horse's shoe, you rascal! said Waverley, mistaking the purport of the intimation. 'Indubitably, answered Mr. Cruickshanks; 'though there was no preceese clause to that effect, it canna be expected that I am to pay for the casualties whilk may befall the puir naig while in your honour's service. Nathless, if your honour
It was good for him to get this so young.... One morning something went wrong with Benton, the farrier. He had been silent for days. Bedient had sensed some trouble in the little man's heart, and had often left Cairns to ride with him. Then came the evening when the farrier was missed. It was in the mountains near Naig.
'Na, na! if ye are nae friend to kirk and the king, and are detained as siccan a person, ye maun answer to honest men of the country for breach of contract; and I maun keep the naig and the walise for damage and expense, in respect my horse and mysell will lose to-morrow's day's wark, besides the afternoon preaching.
The travellers journeyed, therefore, in silence, until it was interrupted by the annunciation, on the part of the guide, that his 'naig had lost a fore-foot shoe, which, doubtless, his honour would consider it was his part to replace. This was what lawyers call a fishing question, calculated to ascertain how far Waverley was disposed to submit to petty imposition.
"Weel, the first line o' 't is,'Catch yer naig, an' pu' his tail. Wi' muckle diffeeclety we hae catcht him, an' noo for the tail o' 'im! There! that's dune! though there's no muckle to shaw for 't. The neist direction is 'In his hin' heel caw a nail: we s' turn up a' his fower feet thegither,'cause they're cooperant; an' noo lat 's see the proper spot whaur to caw the said nail!"
'My part to replace your horse's shoe, you rascal! said Waverley, mistaking the purport of the intimation. 'Indubitably, answered Mr. Cruickshanks; 'though there was no preceese clause to that effect, it canna be expected that I am to pay for the casualties whilk may befall the puir naig while in your honour's service. Nathless, if your honour
Haud my horse, man," he called out to Nigel, without stopping to see to whom he had addressed himself "Haud my naig, and help me doun out o' the saddle deil ding your saul, sirrah, canna ye mak haste before these lazy smaiks come up? haud the rein easy dinna let him swerve now, haud the stirrup that will do, man, and now we are on terra firma."
This was what he afterwards recalled by that time uncertain whether the whole thing had not been a dream: Catch yer naig an' pu' his tail: In his hin' heel ca' a nail; Rug his lugs frae ane anither Stan' up, an' ca' the king yer brither. When first he repeated them entire to himself, the old woman still muttering them, he could not help laughing, and the noise, though repressed, yet roused her.
Catch yer naig an' pu' his tail; In his hin' heel ca' a nail; Rughis lugs frae ane anither Stan' up, an' ca' the king yer brither. On and on went the rime, and on and on went the old woman's voice. "Weel, there cam' a time whan an English lord begud to be seen aboot the place, an' that was nae comon sicht i' oor puir country.
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