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"They'll aye hae a war or something else to fricht you wi', when you show that you mean business. Wha the hell hae we to quarrel wi' onyway, I'd like to ken?" "Oh, it micht be France, or Germany, or Russia, or some ither o' thae cut-throat foreign nations." "An' what are you gaun to quarrel aboot?" yelled Davie still more heatedly. "What the hell do I ken?" was the answer.
He advanced a huge hand for inspection, and listened to the free advice given to try it, and the earnest assurances that it did not matter much if the jaw did break. "Ye'll feenish him off presently onyway, I suppose?" said one, and winked at Macalister. "Just bide a wee," answered Macalister, "I'm coming to that.
Aboot the enlistin', I meant. But I'll no ask ye that. They wud be prood, onyway. 'Ma uncle's raised ma wages, an' they're to be payed a' the time I'm awa'. 'Shakespeare! That's a proper uncle to ha'e! But dinna be tempted to stop awa' till ye're a millionaire. Oh, here's Miss Tod. Keep calm. She'll no bite ye.
He spoke with great vehemence, as though angry; and perhaps I was not very willing to be put down so shortly, for young men are disputatious. At least I remember I retorted hotly, crying out upon childish superstitions. 'And ye come frae the College! sneered Uncle Gordon. 'Gude kens what they learn folk there; it's no muckle service onyway.
"Now, suppose I try," suggests the subaltern gently. He examines the target, promptly disallows Tosh's last inner, and passes on. "Seventeen only!" remarks Private Ogg severely. "I thocht sae!" Private Cosh speaks for the first time removing a paste-brush, and some patching-paper from his mouth "Still, it's better nor a wash-oot! And onyway, you're due us tippence the noo!"
'I very near said I saw them laid; onyway, I saw the hens that laid them. Ye'll hae an egg, eh? 'Yes, if ye like. I havena tasted since eleeven this morning, an' then it was only a dram, said Liz languidly. Teen stood still on the little strip of rag-carpet before the fender, and regarded her friend with a mingling of horror and pity.
I wonder how Smillie took it a'." "Ach, well, it disna matter a damn, onyway. You did fine, an' I canna see how Smillie has onything ado wi' it. However, we hae a hale day to oorsel's now, what dae you say to gaun to the length of Kew Gardens? It's a gran' place, an' I hae a sister oot there in service." "Oh, I don't mind.
He spoke with great vehemence, as though angry; and perhaps I was not very willing to be put down so shortly, for young men are disputatious. At least I remember I retorted hotly, crying out upon childish superstitions. "And ye come frae the College!" sneered Uncle Gordon. "Gude kens what they learn folk there; it's no' muckle service onyway.
"Are ye sure it's the richt man, Ecky?" said a voice which he did not hear. "Sure. It's the Glesca body Dobson telled us to look for yesterday. It's a pund note atween us for this job. We'll tie him up in the wud till we've time to attend to him." "Is he bad?" "It doesna maitter," said the one called Ecky. "He'll be deid onyway long afore the morn." Mrs.
He's got some o' their wages up a hale shillin' a day since he took it in hand." "Is that a fact, Peter? The sooner we ha'e him up here the better then. Black Jock needs a chap back onyway," and Matthew looked like a man who had suddenly discovered a great truth.
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