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Updated: May 21, 2025
'It was thee set 'm on a heerd thee a see'd thee a helping on 'em t' break in; they'd niver ha' thought on attackin' t' house, and settin' fire to yon things, if thou hadn't spoken on it. Simpson was now fairly crying. 'Ay, said he; 'it's a great thing for folk to have a chap for t' lead 'em wi' a head on his shouthers.
"Weel, I cannot see that your plan, haudin' oot innocents that lo'e Him, and lattin in thieves that wad steal oot o' the Lord's ain bag-�gie them a chance-�can be an impruvment upo' the auld fashion o' settin' a man to judge himsel', and tak the wyte o' the jeedgment upo' 's ain shouthers."
'Aweel, she said, as if to herself, 'this war'll pit auld heids on some young shouthers. She got up, laid her seam deliberately on the table, and went to him. She put her arm round him. 'Wi' yer King an' yer Country an' yer Christina, she said, with a sort of laugh, 'there winna be a great deal o' ye left for yer mither.
This was the fellow we wanted to catch; and, you being from the same place, of the same name, and of, as I take it, about the same age, it is really no great wonder that the men were deceived." I allowed that it was not; but said it was rather hard that the sins o' a' the Willie Smiths in the country should be visited on my shouthers.
The boat was quiet, for while we looked, oo'er our shouthers, oo'er her bows, we didn't pull, so she lay still; and lookin' back again on Philip, he was rabblin' on all the same. "'It's nobbut a prass wi' himsel", poor lad, thinks I. "But that wasn't it neither; for I sid something white come out o' t' water, by the gunwale, like a hand.
"No, Reuben, I'll bring disgrace hame to nae man's hearth; my ain distresses I can bear, and I maun bear, but there is nae occasion for buckling them on other folk's shouthers. I will bear my load alone the back is made for the burden."
"But the burden's no that grievous to me, Mr Cupples." "There's no sayin' what you women-fowk will not tak' a pleesur' in bearin'; but the passage refers expressly to the men's shouthers. And sae come alang, deid man's bells."
"Yo mun knoa ey wur crossing the hill fro' Cown to Rough Lee, wi' my pack upon my shouthers, when who should ey meet boh Mother Demdike, an hoo axt me to gi' her some scithers an pins, boh, os ill luck wad ha' it, ey refused.
In despair of knowing what else to do at the moment, Arnold asked for the landlady, whom he had not seen on arriving at the inn. "The landleddy's just tottin' up the ledgers o' the hottle in her ain room," answered Mr. Bishopriggs. "She'll be here anon the wearyful woman! speerin' who ye are and what ye are, and takin' a' the business o' the hoose on her ain pair o' shouthers."
Shames, man, lend a hand to carry him to the fire, and plow up a bit flame that we may see what we've gotten." "Iss he tead, Tonald?" asked Dougall, in a pitiful tone, as he came forward. "No, Shames, he's no tead yet. Take up his feet, man, an' I'll tak' his shouthers." Dougall went to Salamander's feet, turned his back to them, and stooped to take them up as a man takes a wheelbarrow.
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