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Updated: August 31, 2025
Noo I maun confess 'at the ballant o' Kemp Owen was rinnin' i' the worm-heid o' me, an' I cudna help thinkin' what, notwithstan'in' the cheenge o' han's i' the story, lay still to the pairt o' the knicht; but hoo was ony man, no to say a mere ugsome serpent, to mint at sic a thing till a leddy, whether she was in steel beets an' spurs or in lang train an' silver slippers? An' haith!
Where the gorge widened to a valley toward the sea they all climbed up to Leith Walk, that ran to the harbor, and came out to a wonder-world of water-craft anchored in the Firth. Each boy picked out his ship to go adventuring. "I'm gangin' to Norway!" Geordie was scornful. "Hoots, ye tame pussies. Ye're fleid o' gettin' yer feet wat. I'll be rinnin' aff to be a pirate. Come awa' doon."
"Och! here I'm rinnin' a grate risk in tellin' ye at all, and whin I've spilt it all out, and can't pick it up agin, ye may show me the door, and tell me to go 'long wid me rubbish." "If you find what you have to report in the paper, you may know it is worth something.
He had jist killt himsel savin at Phemy, rinnin and fechtin on, upo' the barest chance o' savin her life; and sae whan he set off again to gang til her, no bidin for me, he was that forfouchten 'at he hed a bluid-brak in 's breist, and was jist able, and nae mair, to creep intil the weem oot o' the snaw. He didna like the place, and yet had a kin' o' a notion o' the bonny man bein there whiles.
The world has been rinnin' after a red rag of a Frenchman; but he was nothing to William the Silent. When Pheelip of Spain sent his Duke of Alva to squelch those Dutchmen they joost squelched him like a rotten egg aye, they did." I asked him why he didn't visit America, and told him that I had observed his name registered at Ambleside, on Lake Windermere.
'Pit him intil the Tolbooth for rinnin' awa' wi' the nugget, retorted Mr McIntosh, vindictively. 'A very sensible suggestion, said Gaston, approvingly, smoothing his moustache. 'What do you say, Madame? She shook her head. 'Let him keep his ill-gotten gains, she said, resignedly. 'Now that he has obtained what he wanted, perhaps he'll leave me alone; I will do nothing.
"Maybe ye could tell me whether there be ony likeness atween the licht that I canna see and that soun' o' the water rinnin', aye rinnin', that I like sae weel to hear."
"We-el," answered Dicky thoughtfully, "now that ye mention it, I believe I did see sic a pair, or twa very like them, no later agone than yesterday afternoon. If I'm no mista'en, they're rinnin' on Maister 's farm, no far frae Lanercost." "Man, ah'm that obleeged to ye. But ah'm that deid tired wi' walkin', seekin' them, ah canna gang that far," said the farmer.
Far below us a little light flickered and blinked on the hillside, and we watched it, hardly breathing, and again I heard my heart begin to pound. After some wee while of watching, Dan grunted "Umph!" says he. "Ye see droll things in the hills when ye're rinnin' for dear life. Yon's just Tchonie Handy Ishable and his lantern." "I never would be believing that story," said Ronny.
"It was full moon last night," said the old woman. "Sa bright 'twould blind ye to look at it," said the girl. "Never an ill sight but the deaul finds a light," quoth the old woman. "There's a rinnin brook thar you were at this side, and they at that; did they try to mak ye cross over?" "Agoy! didn't they? Nowt but civility and kindness, though. But ye mun let me tell it my own way.
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