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Updated: June 11, 2025
'If so be the kettle's boiling, she said apologetically. 'Tay! said Vessons. 'Laws! how furiously the women do rage after tay! I s'pose it's me as is to make it? 'If kettle's boiling. 'Kettle! O' course kettle's boiling this hour past. Or how would the ca'ves get their meal? 'Well, you needna shout. You'll wake 'im. Fright was in her eyes, strong and inexplicable to herself.
"That's no you greeting, is it?" she asked, softly. "I'm near the greeting," he said truthfully, "but I'm no sure what about." His sympathy was so easily aroused that he sometimes cried without exactly knowing why. "It's because you're so good," Elspeth told him; but presently she said, with a complete change of voice, "No, Grizel needna have done that."
"Ye needna trouble yoursel to say what's no' true," was the answer; "it's just a bit bairnie unco sma' An' that's nae wonder, considering the puir mither's trouble." "And the father is gone abroad?" "Just twa months sin' syne. But eh! doctor, look ye here," suddenly cried Elspie, as with her great, brown, but tender hand she was rubbing down the delicate spine of the now quieted babe.
Better go ye're ways for a guid sharp trot, to bring the blood back to your veins. Ye'll be in time for the afternoon's post; but unless ye're expecting news of your own, ye needna fash for the rest. Mr Elgood's gane to fetch them." "Mr Elgood?" Information had come at last, and in the most unexpected fashion. "The gentleman we have been watching?" The thin lips lifted with a suspicion of scorn.
When I dandered doon the yaird to get a breath o' fresh air, efter I shut the shop, here's him tumblin' catmas, an' stanin' on his heid i' the middle o' the green, gien Nathan an' twa or three ither loons coosies! Did you ever hear o' sic a man? I'm shure I needna trauchle to haud in aboot the bawbees!
Ye needna tell him the noo what I tell't ye. Jimsie, summoned from play, was proud to go with his big brother. He was ill next day owing to a surfeit of good things consumed at high pressure, but not too ill to discuss what he would purchase with the half-crown that seemed to have stuck to his hot little paw. Back from the works, Macgregor found tea awaiting him.
But ye needna' fash; he's waitin' for ye doon by the Crooked Yett, wi' a' your yowes safe enough." It was useless after this. The wretched man gave in; he struggled no more, but actually went off with the sheep and sold them. And the gallows ended his career. But how the dog followed him is a mystery, and why he waited for him at the "Crooked Yett."
And folk say it needna have been so bad with him, if my grandfather hadna been hard on him." "Whisht, laddie," said his grandmother, with a gasp. Katie looked at him with beseeching eyes, and Davie hung his head.
'I mun go! she whispered. 'Ah! You go, said Vessons, glad that for once duty and inclination went hand in hand. 'I'll send you, he added. 'Where d'yer live? She hesitated. 'You needna be frit to tell me, said Vessons. 'I'm six-and-sixty, and you're no more to me' he surveyed her flushing face contemplatively 'than the wold useless cat, he concluded.
It was a message boy who knew all Peter's tricks knew that however friendly Peter was with a message boy on the road, he felt constrained to jump out at him when he appeared at the back door with a basket. The innocent question was too much for Mrs. M'Cosh. "Na," she said bitterly. "Peter's no' in, so ye needna hold on to the door. Peter's lost. Deid, as likely as not."
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