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By this time Stumpin' Steenie, having undone his cow's tail, was leading her home amid shouts of laughter. "Pit her i' the lock-up, Steenie. She's been takin' up wi' ill loons," screeched an urchin. "Haud yer ill tongue, or I s' tak' you up, ye rascal," bawled Steenie. "Ye'll hae to saiddle Mistress Stephen afore ye can catch me, Stumpin' Steenie!"
If it comes to that, what the de'il are ye doin' ridin' my mare? I'll hae the law o' ye for stealin' her, ye scoondrel! Come doon oot o' my saiddle afore ah pu' ye doon." And the two elderly men, each red in the face as a "bubbly jock," both spluttering and almost speechless with rage, glared at each other, murder in their eyes.
Sen' him to me, and I'll persuaud him. Dauvid, man, ye'll hae to saiddle and ride; the doctor maun gang wi' ye straught to Steenie's hoose. 'Lat me up, said David, making a motion to free himself of the bedclothes. Kirsty went, and got some milk to make it hot. But when she reached the kitchen, Steenie was not there, and the fire, which he had tried to wake up, was all but black.
Gien ye canna get the tae doctor, awa wi' ye to the tither, and dinna ley him till ye see him i' the saiddle and startit. Syne ye can ease the mere, and come hame at yer leisur; he'll be here lang afore ye! Tell him I'll pey him ony fee he likes, be't what it may, and never compleen! Awa' wi' ye like the vera deevil!"
"I wull that, my lord." "And now," said his lordship rising, "I want you to take a letter to Mrs Stewart of Kirkbyres. Can you ride?" "I can ride the bare back weel eneuch for a fisher loon," said Malcolm; "but I never was upon a saiddle i' my life." "The sooner you get used to one the better. Go and tell Stoat to saddle the bay mare. Wait in the yard: I will bring the letter out to you myself."
"He was to come from Fochabers tonight. Stoat took the bay mare to meet him yesterday." "He wad never start in sic a win'! It's fit to blaw the saiddle aff o' the mear's back." "He may have started before it came on to blow like this," said Lady Florimel. Malcolm liked the suggestion the less because of its probability, believing, in that case, he should have arrived long ago.
"Dinna distress yersel'. We canna help it." "But what'll ye do, Curly?" asked Annie in a tone full of compassionate loving-kindness, and with her hand still on his arm. "It's sair to bide." "Gude kens that.�-I maun jist warstle throu' 't like mony anither. I'll awa' back to the pig-skin saiddle I was workin' at," said Curly, with a smile at the bitterness of his fate.
But ye'll better come up wi' me to my room first," he went on, "for the maister disna like to see me in onything but the kilt." "And why will he not pe in ta kilts aal as now?" "I hae been ridin', ye ken, daddy, an' the trews fits the saiddle better nor the kilts." "She'll not pe knowing tat.
"The verra image o' the auld markis!" she said to herself; for in the recesses of her bosom she spoke the Scotch she scorned to utter aloud; "and sits jist like himsel', wi' a wee stoop i' the saiddle, and ilka noo an' than a swing o' his haill boady back, as gien some thoucht had set him straught. Gien the fractious brute wad but brak a bane or twa o' him!" she went on in growing anger.
But ye'll better come up wi' me to my room first," he went on, "for the maister disna like to see me in onything but the kilt." "And why will he no pe in ta kilts aal as now?" "I hae been ridin', ye ken, daddy, an' the trews fits the saiddle better nor the kilts." "She'll not pe knowing tat.
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