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"I never saw sic widdiefows!" "They had a tow across the Wast Wynd i' the snaw, an' doon I cam o' my niz, as sure's your name's Charles Chapman and mair o' my legs oot o' my coats, I doobt, than was a'thegither to my credit."
"Eh, it's deep the nicht, an' hard on us baith, but there's a puir wumman micht dee if we didna warstle through; ... that's it; ye ken fine what a'm sayin. "We 'ill hae tae leave the road here, an' tak tae the muir. Sandie 'ill no can leave the wife alane tae meet us; ... feel for yersel" lass, and keep oot o' the holes. "Yon's the hoose black in the snaw.
'Weel, lat's hap her i' the bonny white snaw! said Marion. 'She'll keep there as lang as the snaw keeps, and naething 'ill disturb her till the time comes to lay her awa! 'That's weel thoucht o'! answered David. 'Eh, wuman, but it's a bonny beerial compared wi' sic as I hae aften gien comrade and foe alike! They went out and chose a spot close by the house where the snow lay deep.
"Eh, it's deep the nicht, an' hard on us baith, but there's a puir wumman micht dee if we didna warstle through; ... that's it; ye ken fine what a'm sayin'. "We 'ill hae tae leave the road here, an' tak tae the muir. Sandie 'ill no can leave the wife alane tae meet us; ... feel for yersel', lass, and keep oot o' the holes. "Yon's the hoose black in the snaw.
"It's going to snow " she said, as she stood beside him, surprised by the sound of her own voice amid the roar of the wind. "Aye it's onding o' snaw " said the shepherd, his shrewd blue eyes travelling over her face and form. "An' it'll mappen be a rough night." "Are you taking your sheep into shelter?" He pointed to a half-ruined fold, with three sycamores beside it, a stone's throw away.
He was to have a weary weird o't till his ane-and-twentieth year, that was aye said o' him; but if ye live and I live, ye'll hear mair o' him this winter before the snaw lies twa days on the Dun of Singleside. I want nane o' your siller," she said, "to make ye think I am blearing your ee; fare ye weel till after Martinmas." And there she left us standing.
"Where it is," replied my guide, after the affectation of considering for a moment, "I cannot justly tell probably where last year's snaw is." "And that's on the tap of Schehallion, ye Hieland dog," said Mr. Jarvie; "and I look for payment frae you where ye stand." "Ay," replied the Highlander, "but I keep neither snaw nor dollars in my sporran.
A sair day they had of it; their hands was never aff the sheets, and it perishin' cauld ower cauld to snaw; and aye they would get a bit nip o' wind, and awa' again, to pit the emp'y hope into them. Eh, man! but they had a sair day for the last o't! He would have had a prood, prood heart that won ashore upon the back o' that. 'And were all lost? I cried. 'God held them!
"Cauld's the snaw at my head, And cauld at my feet, And the finger o' death's at my een, Closing them to sleep." We had arranged together that the "Dolliver Romance" should be first published in the magazine, in monthly instalments, and we decided to begin in the January number of 1864. On the 8th of November came a long letter from him:
It may rain I wudna won'er, but there'll be nae snaw no afore I win hame, onygait. 'Weel, min', gien there be ae drap o' weet, ye maun change ilka stic the minute ye're i' the hoose. Ye're no that stoot yet! 'I'll be sure, auntie! answered Phemy, and they parted almost at a right angle.
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