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Why, I'll back that fiddle against all the bagpipes in Scotland, and Piramus against all the bagpipers; for though Piramus weighs but ten stone, he shall flog a Scotchman of twenty." "Scotchmen are never so fat as that," said I, "unless indeed, they have been a long time pensioners of England. I say, Jasper, what remarkable names your people have!"
He was a Scotchman and first came to this coast in the spring of 1825 under the auspices of the London Horticultural Society, landing at the mouth of the Columbia after a long dismal voyage of eight months and fourteen days.
Monday morning he was faint and fast becoming exhausted; but was encouraged by the hope of soon reaching Piacenza. There he expected to meet his agent, get a little rest and a full supply of much needed provisions. The agent in question, was a Scotchman, he had met in Milan, before going to Turin.
"The skirling Jezebel!" cried Berwin. "I'll pack her off right away!" "Are you a Scotchman?" asked Denzil suddenly. "Why do you ask?" demanded Berwin, without replying. "You used an essentially Scotch word 'skirling." "And I used an essentially American phrase 'right away," retorted the man. "I may be a Scot, I may be a Yankee, but I would remind you that my nationality is my own secret."
At the same time, Benzualde, major of the regiment of Swiss guards, arrived with sixteen of his men to remain night and day in Law's house. The Scotchman did not in the least expect this dismissal or this guard, but he appeared very tranquil respecting both, and maintained his usual coolness. The next day he was taken by the Duc de la Force to the Palais Royal. Then comedy number two was played.
"How did you sleep, Tom?" asked the Scotchman. "Tip-top. Did you rest well?" "I have a gift of sleep," replied Ferguson. "But where is our Yankee friend?" "I suppose he has taken an early walk," said Tom. "He will be back before long, I guess. We'd better not wait breakfast for him. I'm hungry for one."
After watching me "belting away" at a solid mass of quartz for some time without speaking, "Which," said he, "is the hammer-headed end of your pick?" Then shaking his head, "Ah! I could guess you were a Scotchman brute force and blind ignorance!" He then proceeded to show me how to do twice the amount of work at half the expenditure of labour.
He had one associate at the boarding-house, a lank, unsmiling Scotchman named Macfarlane, twice young Clemens's age, and a good deal of a mystery. Sam never could find out what Macfarlane did. His hands were hardened by some sort of heavy labor; he left at six in the morning and returned in the evening at the same hour.
This meant that the triumvirate were to withdraw for discussion, and amounted to notice that henceforth the counsels of the company would be divided. Captain Magnus, after an uneasy wriggle or two, said he guessed he'd turn in. Cookie's snores were already audible between splashes of the waves on the sands. The Scotchman, Cuthbert Vane and I continued to sit by the dying fire. Mr.
In the eighteenth century, Macpherson, a Scotchman, found some of these poems sung in the Highlands of Scotland; and, making a careful study of them, he translated all he could find from the Gaelic into English, and gave them to the world.
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