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"Odd, Bauldie says very true, short sheep did make short rents my father paid for our steading just threescore punds, and it stands me in three hundred, plack and bawbee.
Thornton; adding, 'he's not for myself, of course, but I think I know a man he would suit, and who would be inclined to give a good price for him. 'I will, replied Mr. Sponge; 'I will, repeated he, adding, 'if I were to sell him, I wouldn't take a farthing under three 'underd for him three 'underd guineas, mind, not punds. 'That's a vast sum of money, observed Mr. Thornton.
Thou knowst better nor oi wheere he be likely vor to be. Voind him out, lad, and tell him as they be arter him. Here be ten punds as oi ha had laying by me for years ready in case of illness; do thou give it to him and tell him he be heartily welcome to it, and can pay me back agin when it suits him.
Squire Thorncliff borrowed ten punds o' me to gang to York Races deil a boddle wad he pay me back again, and spake o' raddling my banes, as he ca'd it, when I asked him but for my ain back again; now I think it will riddle him or he gets his horse ower the Border again unless he pays me plack and bawbee, he sall never see a hair o' her tail.
I have heard, forby, that Hughie Dun left a good five hundred punds of Scots money to his only daughter, and that she married the Bailie of Pittenweem." At this moment, and while Halbert was embarrassed with devising a suitable answer, a deer bounded across their path.
King William caused Breadalbane distribute twenty thousand oude punds sterling amang them, and it's said the auld Hieland Earl keepit a lang lug o't in his ain sporran.
Ye preached us out o' our canny free-house and gude kale-yard, and out o' this new city o' refuge afore our hinder end was weel hafted in it; and ye hae preached Mr Harry awa to the prison; and ye hae preached twenty punds out o' the Laird's pocket that he likes as ill to quit wi'; and sae ye may haud sae for ae wee while, without preaching me up a ladder and down a tow.
"God Almighty bless ye, Laird!" said Jeanie, in a transport of gratitude. "Ye may ca' the twenty punds thretty," said Dumbiedikes, looking bashfully away from her, and towards Saddletree.
'W-h-o-o-y! repeated he, 'I shouldn't think though, mind, it's mere conjectur' on my part that you couldn't offer him less than twenty or five-and-twenty punds; or, say, from that to thirty, continued Jack, seeing that Puff's countenance remained complacent under the rise.
It cost that body five hundred merks ere he got to the south of Bally- Brough. So there was old to do about ransoming the bridegroom; for Donald would not lower a farthing of a thousand punds 'The devil! 'Punds Scottish, ye shall understand.
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