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"I have a good many acquaintances, but my friends in London are just three, all told," said Robin, in what Dilly afterwards described as "a disgustingly pawky manner." "You must be very exclusive, Mr Fordyce," chirrupped Dolly. "Far from it," said Robin; "as you will admit when I say that my three friends are a policeman, a surgeon, and a minister." "How quaint of you!" said Dilly.
Holmes murmured in a deprecating voice. "I was about to say, as he is unknown to the public." "A touch! A distinct touch!" cried Holmes. "You are developing a certain unexpected vein of pawky humour, Watson, against which I must learn to guard myself. But in calling Moriarty a criminal you are uttering libel in the eyes of the law and there lie the glory and the wonder of it!
Cantercot," he said, rubbing his hands, half from cold, half from usage; "what have you brought me?" "Nothing," said Denzil, "but if you will lend me a sovereign I'll do you a stunner." The operatic villain shook his locks, his eyes full of pawky cunning. "If you did it after that, it would be a stunner."
"Yon pawky chiel, the auld Vicar's nevey Maister Parchmenter, or what ye ca him a bonnie ane to guard a pair o' lassies he'd be!" "Mr Parmenter!" cried I. "Did Father think of sending us with him?"
Not a pawky wee burn, like this Aberglaslyn thing." "Only five fish?" said Valencia, in a frightened tone. "Fish, my leddy, not trouts, I said. I thought ye knew better than that by this time." "Oh, salmon?" cried Valencia, relieved. "Delightful. I'll go to him this moment." And upstairs to Scoutbush's room she went.
How I wish I was back at sea again on a whaler, with a swinging hammock, a tow net, and microscope, and opportunities any day to study the fairy beauties in drops of sea water, and with human interest too, so much more varied than on this P. & O. Hotel; there, would be all kinds of men, jolly, devil-may-care fellows, and even disreputable characters, mixed with canny, pawky, canting Scotties, and talk of all the corners of the world; ranting rollicking Balzacian yarns, rich in language, in poetry, and tenderness; any minute in the day amongst such people you might strike a yarn that would bear publication; the picturesque interest of life does not seem to be on the high plains, or low levels, but as it were between wind and water, where plain meets mountain, the poor the rich, between happiness and sorrow, and light and shade; and the fun of painting between one colour and the next.
The author is more than justified in thinking that there are numerous persons scattered over our country, who, from ties of ancestry or sympathy with Scotland, will enjoy a record of the quaint sayings and eccentric acts of her past humorists, "her original and strong-minded old ladies, her excellent and simple parish ministers, her amusing parochial half-daft idiots, her pawky lairds, and her old-fashioned and now obsolete domestic servants and retainers."
There was a pawky rascal named McDonald who was partner to Rob, and didn't he run away with the money, leaving Rob in debt to the Duke and nothing to pay him with? The Duke foreclosed on Rob at once, and took away Craig Royston and added it to his own estate. You can well believe that Rob was not the man to take such dealings with patience.
The player must be pawky all the way, for it is fully two to one against there being anything but punishment as the result of bold tactics. The man who tries to place his long shot on the green may try again and again, and he will be convinced that it is next to impossible to stop there when he reaches it.
How can I lay my sporran by, An' sit me doun at hame, Wi'oot a Hieland philabeg Or hyphenated name? I lo'e the gentry o' the North, The Southern men I lo'e, The canty people o' the West, The Paisley bodies too. The pawky folk o' Fife are dear, Sae dear are ane an' a', That e'en to think that we maun pairt Maist braks my hairt in twa.
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