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Updated: June 26, 2025
Long after man and boat were swallowed up in the fog I sat there lost in thought, insomuch that I started to feel a hearty clap on the shoulder and, turning, beheld Godby, a pair of great gold rings in his ears, and very sailor-like in all things from sea-boots to mariner's bonnet. "Here's a ploy, Mart'n!" says he with a round oath.
"Oh, Hamish, Hamish," said she, "I will have been doing that this while." Lassies are droll creatures, and will tell many things the one to the other in the way of a ploy, and Margaret McBride made great work with old Betty's love potion, and that to Helen alone. "I will be trying it on Hugh," said she, "when I have you sleeping, for I will get scraping the white of your nail then."
One house-match is just like another, and their "ploy" of that week happened to be rabbit-shooting with saloon-pistols. "I can't see a ball when it's coming, sir," said Beetle. "I've had my gig-lamps smashed at the Nets till I got excused. I wasn't any good even as a fag, then, sir." "Tuck is probably your form. Tuck and brewing. Why can't you three take any interest in the honor of your house?"
The light was so dim that I saw only a short, square figure, but a familiar voice whispered in my ear. 'It's me Andra Amos. Man, this is a great ploy. I'm here to see the end o't. No prisoner waiting on the finding of the jury, no commander expecting news of a great battle, ever hung in more desperate suspense than I did during the next seconds.
And so, ae morning, siccan a fright as I got! Twa unlucky red-coats were up for black-fishing, or some siccan ploy for the neb o' them's never out o' mischief and they just got a glisk o' his Honour as he gaed into the wood, and banged aff a gun at him. I out like a jer-falcon, and cried "Wad they shoot an honest woman's poor innocent bairn?"
"What ploy, Thomas?" asked Alec, with attempted innocence. "Ye ken weel eneuch what ploy I mean, man." "Weel, supposin' I do there's nae that muckle hairm dune, to mak' a wark aboot, surely, Thomas." "Ca' ye that no hairm?" rejoined Thomas, pulling the dead rabbit out of his pocket, and holding it up by the ears. "Ca' ye that no hairm?" he repeated. Alec stared in dismay.
One night, about a month after the ploy whereof I have spoken in the foregoing chapter, just as my father had finished the worship, and the family were composing themselves round the fireside for supper, we were startled by the sound of a galloping horse coming to the door; and before any one had time to open it, there was a dreadful knocking with the heft of the rider's whip.
It was a bravado, perhaps, but a ploy to brace the spirit; we gathered from it some of the virtues of our simple but ample elders, who were strong men when they lay asleep with a cheek to the naked earth and held their faces frankly up to sun or rain.
For they had returned to their respective trades after the day of the covenanting, and had only been out at Hepburn's raid, as the ploy with the Irvine men was called in jocularity, in order that the neighbours, who venerated their grandfather, might see them together as Covenanters.
Geordie despised the 'hale hypothick' as a 'daft ploy, and the spending of five dollars upon a ticket he considered a 'sinfu' waste o' guid siller'; and he warned Billy against 'coontenancin' ony sic redeeklus nonsense. But no one expected Billy to go; although the last two months he had done wonders for his personal appearance, and for his position in the social scale as well.
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