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Updated: June 26, 2025
"I am not an early riser, As you may surmise, sir; But when I'm on a ploy, sir, I feel just like a boy, sir." No chance rhyme or pun, bad, good, or indifferent, was let slip, however much taking it up might interrupt the subject under discussion. The following childish little poem seems worth preservation now. It was presented to his daughter Matilda on the death of her little dog.
I give you the old word, Elrigmore: 'Claymore and the Gael ; for the rest pardon me you gentlemen are out of the ploy.
"Maister Tammy," I cried, "what for wad ye skail a dacent tinkler lad intil a cauld sea? I'll gie ye your kail through the reek for this ploy the next time I forgaither wi' ye on the tap o' Caerdon." 'Tommy spotted me in a second.
"Hoot! toot! Charles. Ye dinna want a constable to dry yer back. Gang to the gudewife wi' 't," said Andrew, "she'll gie ye a dry sark. Na, na. Lat the laddies work it aff. As lang's they haud their han's frae what doesna belang to them, I dinna min' a bit ploy noo and than. They'll noo turn oot the waur men for a pliskie or twa."
In short, we had a ploy the whole two days they stayed with us, Lady Macadam made for them at a ball, and it was a delight to see how old and young of all degrees made much of Charles. IV. Years of Lamentation I was named in the year 1779 for the General Assembly, and Mrs.
He was a person who never saw in most of a day's transactions aught but the humour of them, and as we ran from this shrieking beldame of Camus, he was choking with laughter at the ploy. "Royal's my race," said he at the first ease to our running "Royal's my race, and I never thought to run twice in one day from an enemy. Stop your greeting, Callum, and not be vexing our friends the gentlemen."
"We had many's the ploy in the old days," says he, "and wild nights too. It will chust be twenty years off an' on since I was swundged behin' that fire like a sheep's heid yes. "I will haf forgotten what ploy that was I was aalways fighting." "Dol Beag, can ye no' be quate before dacent folk?" said Ronald. "Ou ay, Ronald, I was chust thinking of the old ploys I see you have strangers with you."
I was not very clear about how the benefit was to come to book, for the outlay I thought as likely o'ergang the profit; at the same time, not wishing to baulk Mrs Pawkie of a ploy on which I saw her mind was bent, I gave my consent to her and my daughters to send out the cards, and make the necessary preparations.
The muffled sounds of the feet of the various companies as they thundered past upon the snow, roused the old wives dozing over their knitting by their fires of spent oak-bark; and according to her temper would be the remark with which each startled dame turned again to her former busy quiescence: "Some mischeef o' the loons!" "Some ploy o' the laddies!"
Now as I stood thus someone spoke 'twixt sigh and groan: "Bartlemy 'tis Bartlemy!" and the word was taken up by others, "Bartlemy Black Bartlemy!" and all men fell back from me whiles Adam scowled at me above levelled pistol. "Hold off Adam!" I panted. "Let be, Adam Penfeather let be!" "What?" says he, peering, "And is it Martin? Lord love me, now what fool's ploy is this?"
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