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Updated: May 19, 2025
"We'll warm ye, we'll teach ye." At the edge of the Stony Bottom he, as always, left Red Wull. Crossing it himself, and rounding Langholm How, he espied James Moore, David, and Owd Bob walking away from him and in the direction of Kenmuir. The gray dog and David were playing together, wrestling, racing, and rolling. The boy had never a thought for his father.
"We didn't set up for him because we know'd he'd shut oop all right, and if he didn't nobody wouldn't come and steal our plate, 'cause the owd woman allus taks it to bed wi' her." "Tummus!" "Well, so you do; six silver teaspoons, on'y one was lost years ago, and the sugar bows, sir, she allus wrops 'em up in an owd pocky ankychy."
"If you two go on chattering like that we shall get no birds," said Dave sharply. "What a pair o' ruck-a-toongues you are; just like two owd women!" "Well, but the birds are so long coming," said Dick; "I'm getting the cramp. "Plenty; only they wean't show theirsens. Hah!"
"John Grange is as dead as a door-nail, and owd Jemmy Ellis knows it too; but he's scarred of his bairn hearing, and don't want the missus up at the house to think on it." "But we don't know that he is dead," said old Hannah. "Not for sewer," growled old Tummus, beginning to take off his heavy boots; "and we arn't sewer of a many things.
There's owd lasses nowadays, gie 'em a sup o' chatter-watter an' a butter-shive, an' they'll tell you tales that would fotch t' devil out o' his den to hark tul 'em." After this attack upon the licence of the tea-table, Owd Dont needed a long draught of March ale to regain his composure. I knew that it was worse than useless to attempt to hurry him in his narrative.
Yo've knocked him! Knock him agin! Owd Bob o' Kenmuir! Moore! Moore o' Kenmuir! Hip! Hip!" until the noisy young giant attracted such attention in his boisterous delight that Maggie had to lay a hand upon his arm to restrain his violence. Alone, on the far bank of the stream, stood the vanquished pair.
"Yo' canno' do that, Miss Melrose. Yo'r feyther wunna see yo'. He's an owd man noo, and we darena disturb him." Felicia argued with the pair, first quietly, then with a heaving breast, and some angry tears. Dixon soon dropped the struggle, so far as words went. He left that to his wife. But he stood firmly against the door, looking on. "You shan't keep me here!" said Felicia at last with a stamp.
Curse as M'Adam might, threaten as he might, when the time came Owd Bob won. The styles of the rivals were well contrasted: the patience, the insinuating eloquence, combined with the splendid dash, of the one; and the fierce, driving fury of the other. The issue was never in doubt.
Brand made no reply. His wife brought in the tea, and he and Will helped themselves greedily. Presently Will said abruptly: "A've made that owd gun work all right." "Aye?" Brand's tone was interrogative, but listless. "I shot a kestrel an' a stoat wi' un this morning." "Yo'did, eh?"
Why, if you get a fine day you never can count upon another." "No," sighed Hannah; "but there's a deal of good in the world, after all." "Eh? What?" cried old Tummus, jumping up and standing upon the patchwork hearthrug in his stockings, "wheerabouts? wheer is it, owd woman? I'm a-going to look for it 'fore I gets a day owder."
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