Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 16, 2025
An' when that comes to pass, I'll just gang back to my schule and my catechism, and begin again wi' 'who was born o' the Virgin Mary, suffered oonder Pontius Pilate! Hech! lads, there's no subjectives and objectives there, na beggarly, windy abstractions, but joost a plain fact, that God cam' down to look for puir bodies, instead o' leaving puir bodies to gang looking for Him.
Atower to the middle o' the flure he comes again, an', stridin' his legs oot, he began to garr first the tae airm an' syne the tither gae whirlin' roond an' roond like the fly wheel o' an engine. It mindit me o' the schule laddies an' their bummers. Weel, than; I goes my wa's into the hoose. "Ay, it's a fine thing an egg, Sandy," says I; "especially twa."
"A' wesna sure till last nicht, an' then a' felt it wudna be lang, an' a' took a wearyin' this mornin' tae see ye. "We've been freends sin' we were laddies at the auld schule in the firs, an' a' wud like ye tae be wi' me at the end. Ye 'ill stay the nicht, Paitrick, for auld lang syne." "It's maist awfu' tae hear ye speakin' aboot deein', Weelum; a' canna bear it.
"And was he a black man?" "He was a white man, and he left me with eight children, all under age, and the youngest and the oldest have followed their father." "In fath, ye've seen a dale of trouble, I'm sure; and we heard that black man we often saw comin' from schule with ye an' that yellow lass an' boy was your chilther."
"Naething pleased Bulldog sae weel as givin' us a lickin'; if he juist had a cane in his hands and a laddie afore him, Bulldog would sune be himsel' again, and there's no a laddie in schule he's licked as often as me. And I cam up " and Speug stuck. "To offer yourself for a thrashing, you mean. You've mentioned the medicine; 'pon my word, I believe it's just the very thing that will do the trick.
He's done wi' Paoli he's off wi' the landlouping scoundrel of a Corsican; and whose tail do you think he has pinned himself to now, mon? A dominie, mon an auld dominie: he keeped a schule, and cau'd it an acaadamy." Well might Boswell say that they were "so totally different that a good understanding is scarcely possible."
"Leeze me o' ye! but I kenned ye were o' the true Norse blude after a'! "For a' that, an' a' that, A man's a man for a' that. "Oh, but I hae expeckit it this month an' mare! Oh, but I prophesied it, Johnnie!" "Then why, in Heaven's name, did you introduce me to such a scoundrel?" "I sent you to schule, lad, I sent you to schule. Ye wad na be ruled by me.
"Wad ye even carted herrin with my fish caller fra' the sea? and Dunbar oh, fine! ye ken there's nae herrin at Dunbar the morn; this is the Dunbar schule that slipped westward. "I'll no be oot o' mine lang." Enter Flucker hastily, crying: "Cirsty, the Irishman will gie ye twenty-two schellin." "I'll no tak it," said Christie.
"Ane o' ma wee lassies," expatiated Domsie, "fell comin' doon the near road frae Whinnie Knowe, and cuttit her cheek on the stones, and if Lachlan didna wash her face and comfort her; an' mair, he carried her a' the road tae the schule, and says he in his Hieland way, 'Here iss a brave little woman that hass hurt herself, but she will not be crying, and he gave her a kiss and a penny tae buy some sweeties at the shop.
I doubt he won't come to schule this arternoon. That'll shaw. I be gwaine, if I got to crawl theer." "An' him a year older than what you be!" said Joan. "Iss, Mat's 'leben year old. I'll have some vinegar an' brown paper to this here eye, mother." "Ait your mayte, ait your mayte fust," she answered. "Plague 'pon your fightin'!"
Word Of The Day
Others Looking