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She bore him after the minister, and sat down with him on her own stool, beside her father, who looked up, with his hands and knees in skilful consort of labour. "Weel, minister, hoo are ye the day? Is the yerd ony lichter upo' the tap o' ye?" he said, with a smile that was almost pauky. "I do not understand you, Mr. MacLear!" answered James with dignity. "Na, ye canna!
He whispered this in a manner that we call "pauky," being a free man with his tongue. "This is a strange tale enough," I said; "the saints grant that the Maid speaks truly!" "But yesterday came a letter of her sending to the King," he went on, "but never of her writing, for they say that she knows not 'A' from 'B, if she meets them in her voyaging.
His customers were chiefly of the poorer classes of the town and the neighbourhood, who preferred his unpretending shop to the more showy establishments of some of his rivals. A sort of couthy, pauky, confidentially flattering way that he had with them, pleased them, and contributed greatly to keep them true to his counter.
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