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So I have the garret made rale snod an' cosie. There's a fine fixed-in bed, an' I have the room chairs I got when my Auntie Leeb de'ed, wi' a tidie or twa ower them, an' an auld-fashioned roond tablie 'at I bocht at a rowp ane o' thae anes that cowps up an' sets back to the wa' when you're no' needn't. Auntie Leeb left me her big lookin' gless too.
In the "Dance of the Seven Deadly Sins", there is a well-known allusion to the bag-pipes: "Than cryd Mahoun for a Healand padyane; Syne ran a feynd to feche Makfadyane Far northwart in a nuke. Be he the correnoch had done schout Erschemen so gadderit him about In Hell grit rowme they tuke. Thae tarmegantis with tag and tatter Full lowde in Ersche begowth to clatter, And rowp lyk revin and ruke.
"Lord, it's true!" said Sandy Toddle. "I gaed into the kitchen on purpose to make sure o' the matter with my own eyes. I let on I wanted to borrow auld Gourlay's keyhole saw. I can tell ye he had a' his orders his tool-chest's the finest I ever saw in my life! I mean to bid for some o' yon when the rowp comes.
"I seh!" roared Brodie in his coarsest voice, from the side of the ring opposite to Gourlay. "I seh, owctioner! That maun be a College-bred stot, from the way he behaves. He flung dirt at his masters, and had to be expelled." "Put Brodie in the ring and rowp him!" cried Irrendavie. "He roars like a bill, at ony rate."
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