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But James Dow was ill-pleased when he heard of the arrangement which was completed in due time. "For," said he, "I canna bide that Bruce. He's a naisty mean cratur.
But there's a kin' o' roost that gathers and a kin' o' moth that breeds i' the gowd and siller whan they're laid up i' the hert; and the roost's an awfu' thing for eatin' awa', and the moth-craters hae teeth as hard's the siller that breeds them; and instead o' eatin' the siller, like the meal-worms, they fa' upo' the girnel itsel' that's the heart; and afore lang the hert itsel's roostit awa' wi' the roost, and riddlet through and through wi' the moths, till it's a naisty fushionless thing, o' no use to God or man, not even to mak' muck o'. Sic a crater's hardly worth damnin'."
"Naisty trash o' lees," he remarked, apparently for Annie's behoof, as he hung the fresh bait up in his window, after two little urchins, with bawbees to spend, had bought a couple of the radiant results of literature and art combined. "Naisty trash o' lees only fit for dirrty laddies and lassies."
"No, no! I won't have it ole nassy plate!" "W'y, baby! W'y, Sammy," deprecated Cornelia, "that's yo' own little plate that mammy washed for you. You mustn't call it naisty." "Hit air nassy," insisted young Samuel. "Hit got 'pecks see!" and the small finger pointed to some minute flaw in the ware which showed as little dots on the white surface.
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