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At the end of that, one came to a peep-hole of a window, set out on wooden brackets, that hung right over the kirkyard wall. From that window Bobby could be dropped on a certain noble vault, from which he could jump to the ground. "Twa meenits' wark, stout hearts, sleekit footstaps, an' the fearsome deed is done," declared twelve-year-old Geordie, whose sense of the dramatic matched his daring.
Wee, sleekit, cow'rin', tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie! Thou need na start awa sae hasty, Wi' bickering brattle! I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee, Wi' murd'ring prattle! The decayed hollows which we have mentioned as so often productive of little owls have their possibilities by no means exhausted by one visit.
Here he opened the fatal volume. 'Stephen, said Sir John, still in the same soft, sleekit tone of voice 'Stephen Stevenson, or Steenson, ye are down here for a year's rent behind the hand due at last term. STEPHEN. 'Please your honour, Sir John, I paid it to your father. SIR JOHN. 'Ye took a receipt, then, doubtless, Stephen; and can produce it?
Sometimes the spluichdan will erect its bristles almost perpendicularly, while, at other times, it reclines them even down; one time it resembles a bristly sow, at another time a sleekit cat; and what dead skin, except itself, could perform such cantrips? Happy in the prospect of making a good bargain, and never suspecting any duplicity, he instantly complied.
Here he opened the fatal volume. I have heard of a thing they call Doomsday book I am clear it has been a rental of back-ganging tenants. "Stephen," said Sir John, still in the same soft, sleekit tone of voice "Stephen Stevenson, or Steenson, ye are down here for a year's rent behind the hand due at last term." Stephen. Please your honour, Sir John, I paid it to your father. Sir John.
Will not one of you come forward and dry my sleekit locks? I thought the bravest lass in the school would do it, so I came straight to wee Leuchy; but she has turned her head aside. What ails the lassie? What can be coming over her, and she so brave and so noble?
Hardly a piece of his, large or small, but has "snap" and raciness. "Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie:"
How everything that was beautiful and tender and helpless in nature appealed to him we know from his poems. There is the field mouse the "wee sleekit,* cow'rin', tim'rous beastie," whose nest he turned up and destroyed in his November plowing. "Poor little mouse, I would not hurt you," he says *Smooth. "Thy wee bit housie, too, in ruin; Its silly wa's the win's are strewin'!"
"It's a fine, saft sleekit win, laird," said Malcolm, as if they were meeting for the first time that night. "I think it maun come frae the blue there, ayont the stars.
But the best death, quick and crystal-pure, set so glaringly open before us, is hard enough to face, even though we feel gratefully sure that we have already had happiness enough for a dozen lives. But poor Stickeen, the wee, hairy, sleekit beastie, think of him!
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