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Why, ye might as weel go and ask them to tak you and me off to Morpeth before dinner-time, as to lay him at their door this morning." "Well, Master Teasdale," said the skipper, who was becoming impatient, "what would you have us to do with him?" "Why, I see there's naething for it," answered Harry, "but I maun tak the burden o' him upon my awn shouthers. Get the boat ready."
'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.
"Deed, mem," said George, whose acquaintance with Scripture was neither extensive nor precise, "to my mind he's jist a fulfilment o' the prophecee, 'An auld heid upo' young shouthers; though I canna richtly min' whilk o' the lesser prophets it is that conteens 't."
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