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"Well, cousin," said the other, "ye'll wear black at my burial." "Deil a black cloak will be there, Robin, but the corbies and the hoodie-craws, I'se gie ye my hand on that. But whar's the gude thousand pund Scots that I lent ye, man, and when am I to see it again?"
"It was a rael satisfaction tae read yir letter frae the backwoods or was't a public-hoose in New York? ma memory's no what it used to be tellin' hoo ye were aye thinkin' o' yer auld granny, and wantin' tae come hame and be a comfort tae her if she wud send ye out twenty pund. "The bit that affeckit me maist wes the text frae the Prodigal Son it cam in sae natural.
He who fails or causes the failures of others is certain to hear very plainly of it from those who accompany him to this very dramatic kind of fishing. "0' a' the stupid asses!" cried that young man. "Was there ever sic a beauty? a pund wecht gin it was an ounce! an' to fa' aff a stane like a six-months' wean!" His effective condemnation made Winsome laugh.
"Aye, I bowt her for sixpence afore I wed her," he said, looking them steadily in the face, "an' t' man that selled her to me said I'd gotten her muck-cheap. Them was t' truest words he iver spak, an' shoo would hae been muck-cheap if I'd gien a million pund for her." During all the years that Mary Whittaker had spent at Holmton she had not once caught sight of Samuel Learoyd.
What prem. d' ye think it will bring?" "Twa pund a share, and maybe mair." "'Od, I'll apply for three hundred!"
Ye should hae gin ten pund sterling apiece for the coos, and not twenty-sen and saxpence. It's a pity yer brither, and Thacker, and MacFarlane are no here the nicht, and we'd droon them, too."
And he was baith civil and just in his dealings; and if he thought his chapman had made a hard bargain, he wad gie him a luck-penny to the mends. I hae ken'd him gie back five shillings out o' the pund sterling." "Twenty-five per cent," said Owen "a heavy discount." "He wad gie it though, sir, as I tell ye; mair especially if he thought the buyer was a puir man, and couldna stand by a loss.
"It's vera different frae my last place," says I, discontented-like. And the words were true enough, for auld Fairmer Scott only gave me a pund a month and parritch twice a day. "Weel, weel," says he, "maybe we'll gie ye a rise if ye suit. Meanwhile here's the han'sel shillin' that Maister McNeil tells me it's the custom tae give, and I shall expec' tae see ye at Cloomber on Monday."
The drover takes away the cow, an' gies the Cameronian his twanty pund Scots. But after that, he meets him again on the white sands, amang a' the drovers an' dealers o' the land, an' the Gallowayman, he says to the Cameronian, afore a' thae witnesses, 'Come, Master Whiggam, I hae never paid you for yon bit useless cow that I bought.
"Very kind o' Maister Black," she observed to Peggy, her maid-of-all-work, on reading the letter. "The Blankow Bank gi'es a high dividend, nae doot, but I'm well enough off, and hae nae need to risk my siller for the sake o' a pund or twa mair income i' the year. Fetch me the ink, Peggy."
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