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"Was the bairn laid mither nakit intill yer han's, Maister MacPhail?" asked Miss Horn, who had been meditating. "Och! no; he wass his clo'es on," answered Duncan. "Hae ye ony o' them left?" she asked again. "Inteet not," answered Duncan. "Yes, inteet not." "Ye lay at the Salmon, didna ye?" "Yes, mem, and they wass coot to her." "Wha drest the bairn till ye?"
Ye wad be thinkin' ye was i' yer bed whan ye was i' the mids' o' the middin', or pu'in' the blankets o' the denk dub ower yer heid! Lord! my lord, yet micht set the hoose o' fire, an' burn a', baith stable an' byre, an' horses an' cairts, an' cairt-sheds, an' hiz a' to white aisse in oor nakit beds!" "Hold your outlandish gibberish," returned his lordship. "Go and fetch me some whisky.
"Hoot! ye're a witch, Mistress Catanach!" said Malcolm merrily. "That's as may be," she returned, rising, and nodding mysteriously; "I hae tauld ye nae mair nor the trowth. But what garred ye whup's a' oot o' oor nakit beds by five o'clock i' the mornin', this mornin', man! That's no what ye're paid for." "Deed, mem, it was jist a mistak' o' my puir daddy's.
In fact, most of our lives consists in a perpetual struggle between healthy constitutions and false modes of living." "Dat berry foolish," said Mafuta, shaking his head. "Me onderstan' dat baccy good, berry good, bot what de use of clo'es; why you not go nakit? s'pose 'cause you not black, eh?" "Well, not exactly. The fact is "
Ay, he wad come hame, aften as drunk as man cud be, but hame he cam. Sleep intil the efternune o' the neist day he wad, but never oot o' 's nain bed or if no aye in his ain nakit BED, for I fan' him ance mysel' lyin' snorin' upo' the flure, it was aye intil 's ain room, as I say, an' no in ony strange place drunk or sober.
I have seen ye, and what's to prevent ithers? I saw ye once in the Hags, in my ain howf, and I was wae to see ye there in pairt for the omen, for I think there's a weird on the place and in pairt for pure nakit envy and bitterness o' hairt. It's strange ye should forgather there tae!
I have seen ye, and what's to prevent ithers! I saw ye once in the Hags, in my ain howl, and I was wae to see ye there in pairt for the omen, for I think there's a weird on the place and in pairt for pure nakit envy and bitterness o' hairt. It's strange ye should forgather there tae!
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