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Updated: September 27, 2025
"A tavern!" quoth he, "A tavern, 'od rot 'em and here's me hove short in this plaguy hole! A tavern, and here's my bottle out dog bite me! But a mouthful left well, here's to a bloody shirt and the Brotherhood o' the Coast." "You drink to the buccaneers, I think?" says I. "And what if I do?" "'Tis said they be no better than pirates " "Would ye call me a pirate then?" cried he, scowling.
Od, that's ane indeed!" "Well, well, you old beldam, carry your fish up to Monkbarns, and see what my sister will give you for them." "Eighteen-pence, or nothing!" "Half-a-crown then, Maggie, and a dram." "Aweel, your honour maun hae't your ain gate, nae doubt; but a dram's worth siller now the distilleries is no working." "And I hope they'll never work again in my time," said Oldbuck.
Coming forward with a defiant air, the little woman said: "Look you, don't you snurl so; but if you've anything to say, just open your mouth and tell us what it's about." The challenge was decidedly unequivocal. "'Od bliss the lass!" cried Mrs. Garth with an air of profound astonishment "What ails the bit thing?"
'I have been lucky in my partners, I said, 'first that pretty young lady, and then you, Mrs. Martin. 'Hout wi' your fleeching, said Dame Martin. 'Gae wa gae wa, lad; dinna blaw in folk's lugs that gate; me and Miss Lilias even'd thegither! Na, na, lad od, she is maybe four or five years younger than the like o' me, bye and attour her gentle havings.
It was much easier to manage the Indian's than the idle and vicious men that composed the majority of the settlement. Even the domestic animals partook the industrious spirit: "of three sowes in eighteen months increased 60 and od Pigs; and neare 500 chickings brought up themselves without having any meat given them."
Od, an I had kenn'd it had been Meg Merrilies yon night at Tibb Mumps's, I wad taen care how I crossed her. Bertram listened with great attention to this account, which tallied so well in many points with what he had himself seen of this gipsy sibyl.
Finallie, when he had reigned fiue yéeres and od moneths, he departed this life. And so procéeding, chargeth him with the sinne of the Sodomits, & sore blameth him, for that where it had pleased God to make him higher than all other dukes of Britaine in kingdome and degrée, he did not shew himselfe better, but contrarilie far woorse than they both in maners and conditions.
Wha thought ye wad hae laid that and that thegither? Od, I am clean catch'd now." "By me," said Edie, "and twa o' the brig's men but they didna ken its contents, and thought it some bit smuggling concern o' the Captain's. Now, ye see, if I had said mair or less to Bailie Littlejohn, I behoved till hae come out wi' a' this story; and vexed would Mr.
There was a young gentleman on the box, and he behuved to drive; and Tam Sang, that suld hae mair sense, he behuved to let him, and the daft callant couldna tak the turn at the corner o' the brig; and od! he took the curbstane, and he's whomled her as I wad whomle a toom bicker it was a luck I hadna gotten on the tap o' her. Sae I came down atween hope and despair, to see if ye wad send me on."
"The more shame to England," said I; "to my thinking it is a scandal that our highways should be rendered odious by such horrors, and as wicked as it is useless." "'Od rot me!" cried the fellow, slapping a cloud of dust from his coat with his stick, "hark to that now."
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