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"'It's all right, my puir feller, ses the second mate; 'ye're in good hands ye're saved. "'Damme! ses the man; 'what's your little game? Where's my boat eh? Where's my boat? "He wriggled a bit, and got his head up, and, when he saw it bowling along two or three hundred yards away, his temper got the better of him, and he swore that if Mr. McMillan didn't row after it he'd knife him.
But with sae many strange eyes glowering upon me, I tak' shame to mysel' to greet." "Ah, Jeannie, my puir woman," said the husband, grasping her hand, "ye maun bear up; 'tis God's will; an sinfu' creatures like us mauna repine. But oh, madam," turning to me, "we have sair hearts the day!"
For mysel', I canna say I ever likit him o'er weel; and since puir Maggie gaed awa', I hae ta'en little pleasure in the honor he has done oor village." "Maggie gone away! Where to?" "Nane can tell. She had a sair trial wi' yonder auld harridan her brother brought to bide wi' her." "I did not like the woman, Willie." "Like her? Wha wad like her but the blackhearted and the black-tongued?
"It was a noble end," said Tam after he had landed, "and A'm no' so sure that he would have cared to be coonted oot in any other saircumstances; for the shepherd likes to die amongst his sheep and the captain on his bridge, and this puir feller was verra content, A've no doot, to crash under the een of his wee " "Did you kill him, Tam?" asked Blackie.
"Puir Bob," he said, tenderly, as he patted the neck of the animal which rubbed its soft nose against his arm. It seemed so glad of the companionship and reached nearer as Robert put out his other hand to stroke sympathetically the nose of the other horse, as he also drew near. "Puir Rosy," he said. "Was you feart for the wind and the rain? Poor lass!
But as it left her lips she rose, grasping it in both hands, and with the dignity of a messenger of the Most High, before which the deacon drew back, bore it to the laird, and having made him drink the little that was left, yielded it to the conservator of holy privileges, with the words: "Hoots, man! the puir body never had a taste o' the balm o' Gilead in a' 's persecutit life afore!"
It's a won'er to me he hasna broken your banes and his ain back thegither, puir thing! he added, patting and stroking the spirited little creature that stood sweating and trembling. 'I thank you, Mr. Barclay, said Francis insolently, 'but I am quite able to manage the brute myself. You seem to take me for a fool!
"Hearing the sound of wheels, the wife, a coarse ill-dressed slattern, came out to see what could bring strangers to such an out-o'-the-way place at that late hour. "Puir Jeanie! I can weel imagine the fluttering o' her heart when she spier'd of the woman for ane Willie Robertson, and asked if he was at hame? "'Yes, answered the wife gruffly.
They made puir Rabbie Burns an anything-arian, wi' their blethers, an' he was near gaun the same gate." And, besides, he absolutely refused to enter any place of worship where there were pews. "He wadna follow after a multitude to do evil; he wad na gang before his Maker wi' a lee in his right hand.
His wife, puir body, admonished an' entreated him to break awa' fra the sinfu' habit, and he often, when moved by her tears, made resolutions o' amendment, which were broken maist as soon as made; an' it was during a longer season o' sobriety than was usual wi' him, that his wife, thinkin' if he was once awa' fra the great city he would be less in the way o' temptation, persuaded him to leave Glasgow an' remove to the sma' village o' Mill-Burn, a little way frae the farm which my father rented.
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