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I don't believe there is a piano in the country except at the girls' school at Cetinje. The Scotchman had suggested the gusla as a substitute, and had been met with derisive laughter, for he had made the suggestion in all good faith. He was one of the most unmusical men I have ever met.
An excursion of American home seekers had just come in, and one of the variety to essay placing an American flag on the pyramids had taken a glass too much. He began haranguing the street-car. "So that's the old Can-a-dáy flag," said he. "You jus' wait till to-morrow and, boys, you'll see another flag above that thar school 'ouse!" Now a Scotchman is vera' serious.
'Tis a gift of the gods, peculiar to Englishmen. The other inhabitants of these Isles of Britain are comparatively cosmopolitan. The Scotchman goes everywhere; the world is his oyster. Ireland is an island still more remote than Great Britain; but the Irishman has never been so insular as the English.
"And may the devil go with you," said Stefanone, under his breath, as the doctor disappeared. "Why?" inquired Dalrymple, who had caught the words. "I said nothing," answered the peasant, thoughtfully trimming one wick of the lamp with the bent brass wire which, with the snuffers, hung by a chain from the ring by which the lamp was carried. "I thought you spoke," said the Scotchman.
Away wi' ye, schoolmaster, and take your tuning-fork to ask the blessing wi'. What says the Scripture, man? 'The living, the living, he shall praise Thee!" The doctor was a Scotchman, and Master Swift always listened with sympathy to a North countryman. He was convinced, too, and took his tuning-fork to the meals, and led the grace.
He liked the stanch faith of the girl in her friend, even though his investigations had not led him to accept goodness as the outstanding quality of the Scotchman. "I don't know what we would do without him," Diane went on. "Give him ten years and a free hand and Alaska will be fit for white people to live in. These attacks on him by newspapers and magazines are an outrage."
I never expected to see the day that stuff would be of any earthly use." "I told you all you needed to do with what you learn is to link it to something else." "But I never seemed to be able to hook it on before," confided the lad frankly. "Gee, but it makes me chesty! I'm pleased to death with myself!" To save himself the old Scotchman could not but chuckle at his companion's naïve satisfaction.
"No," gasped Margaret, "not to-day, but to-morrow or the next day they will come, and oh! how will it end?" "That God knows alone," answered Peter gravely as he sheathed his sword. When the story of this attempt was told to Castell he seemed much disturbed. "It is clear that they have a blood-feud against you on account of that Scotchman whom you killed in self-defence," he said anxiously.
She listened wistfully a moment to the now slightly dulled oratorio, then: "Yes, Angus McDonald is his name; but there are two kinds of Scotch, and Angus is the other kind. Of course he's one of the big millionaires now, with money enough to blind any kind of a Scotchman, but he was the other kind even when he first come out to us, a good thirty years ago, without a cent.
Crawshay said, though he might be a little hard sometimes, and this made us waver. But just then Lewis-yr-Helwyr, shouting out in Welsh, 'We ask for more wages and they give us soldiers, leaped at the throat of the Scotchman nearest to him, and snatching the musket out of his hand, stuck the bayonet into him.
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