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"Pretty pliskies ye've been at this day!" cried the old lady, with humorous alacrity; and then, "Take care don't break my crystal!" she cried, as the lawyer came within an ace of knocking the glasses off the table. "And how is he keeping?" asked Michael. "O, just the same, Mr. Michael, just the way he'll be till the end, worthy man!" was the reply.
'Pretty pliskies ye've been at this day! cried the old lady, with humorous alacrity; and then, 'Take care don't break my crystal! she cried, as the lawyer came within an ace of knocking the glasses off the table. 'And how is he keeping? asked Michael. 'O, just the same, Mr Michael, just the way he'll be till the end, worthy man! was the reply.
Just and right has been my walk before you, but still " Then, with a sudden passion, and rising to his feet, he cried out, "Frien's, I'm a poor sinfu' man, but I'll play no mair pliskies wi' my conscience. I hae dootless been a hard master, hard and stern, and loving Sinai far beyond Bethlehem. Hard was I to my lad, and hard hae I been to the wife o' my bosom, and hard hae I been to my ain heart.
"I'll hae you to understand, Dominie Tallisker, that I am laird o' Crawford and Traquare, and I'll hae nae such pliskies played in either o' my clachans." "If you are laird, I am dominie. You ken me weel enough to be sure if this thing is a matter o' conscience to me, neither king nor kaiser can stop me.
O, Maister Frank! a' your uncle's follies, and a' your cousin's pliskies, were naething to this!
We downa bide the coercion of gude braid-claith about our hinderlans, let a be breeks o' free-stone, and garters o' iron." "Ye'll find the stane breeks and the airn garters ay, and the hemp cravat, for a' that, neighbour," replied the Bailie. "Nae man in a civilised country ever played the pliskies ye hae done but e'en pickle in your ain pock-neuk I hae gi'en ye wanting."
We downa bide the coercion of gude braid-claith about our hinderlans, let a be breeks o' free-stone, and garters o' iron." "Ye'll find the stane breeks and the airn garters ay, and the hemp cravat, for a' that, neighbour," replied the Bailie. "Nae man in a civilised country ever played the pliskies ye hae done but e'en pickle in your ain pock-neuk I hae gi'en ye wanting."
"I howp noo, Sandy," I says, says I, "that you'll keep clear o' the eediotikal pliskies you played lest winter." "You can wadger your henmist bodle on that," says Sandy, as he took a rive ooten a penny lafe. "There's to be ither kind o' wark on this winter. Bandy an' me's been busy at the gomitry.
You never heard sic lauchin' as there was; an' Sandy's frien' lookit as gin he'd haen a dram, an' gotten an awfu' dose o' cauld. He didna say "guid-mornin'" when he gaed oot at the Toy Brig Station. Sandy had twa-three mair pliskies atween Dundee an' Edinboro, but I hinna time to tell you o' them. Peety the man that starts to write Sandy's beebliographie.
O, Maister Frank! a' your uncle's follies, and a' your cousin's pliskies, were naething to this!
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