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But when he sees a partially disguised picture of it he knows it for the devil's child that it is. 'O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, and so it would, to see ourselves as we see others. We judge our brother and ourselves by two different standards.
It would have been an awkward position for most boys, and even Tommy but next moment he said, quite coolly: "I think you and me and Miss Ailie should keep it to oursels, Gavinia's sic a gossip." "Oh, how thoughtful of him!" cried Miss Ailie, the deceived, and McLean said: "How very thoughtful!" but now he saw in a flash why Mr. Cathro still had hopes that Tommy might carry a bursary.
So universal is this lack of self-under standing that the poet expressed a real human longing when he said: "Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us And foolish notion: What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us And even devotion!"
"You are no you canna " he began, and then dodged the telling. "We we may get a lift in a cart," he said weakly. "And I'll sit aside you in the fields, and make chains o' the gowans, will I no? Speak, Tommy!" "Ay ay, will you," he groaned. "And we'll have a wee, wee room to oursels, and "
While chewing over these lessons learnt from bitter experience, I had yet another dream. "O wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us!" Again did I find myself facing the same problem, this time with ten lessons to guide me. I started off by sending out patrols, as described in my last dream, but their orders were slightly different.
Luckily, however, for me, a flock of fleets and ships frae the East and West Indies came in a' thegither; and there was sic a stress for tide-waiters, that before I was sworn in and tested, I was sent down to a grand ship in the Malabar trade frae China, loaded with tea and other rich commodities; the captain whereof, a discreet man, took me down to the cabin, and gave me a dram of wine, and, when we were by oursels, he said to me
"Faix, the bridges betune oursels and civiloization are all broke down!" exclaimed Felix McGavonty, who sometimes used his Milesian dialect in order, as he put it, not to lose his mother's brogue. "Not so bad as that, Felix; for there is considerable civilization lying around loose in Borneo," replied Louis Belgrave. "Not much of it here is found," added Achang Bakir, the Bornean.
If some power had given Hoopdriver the 'giftie' Burns invoked, 'to see oursels as ithers see us, he would probably have given it away to some one else at the very earliest opportunity. Invariably this person possessed an iron will. The stories fluctuated indefinitely.
Why does Arch-Bishop Elder inhibit the round dance even in day-light? Mr. and Mrs. ECHO and their girls and boys will please answer why? And why has he inhibited all kinds of dancing after dark? Will some member of the same family please rise and explain? "Oh wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us."
"'O wad some power the giftie gie us," chanted Bea's tongue between clicks, "'To see oursels as ithers see us, It wad fra mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion." Then as Berta took a threatening step in her direction, she broke into a run. "I think I'll take some exercise now," she called back mockingly as she fled up the stairs.
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