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Nevertheless, she "spaed fortunes," read dreams, composed philtres, discovered stolen goods, and made and dissolved matches as successfully as if, according to the belief of the whole neighbourhood, she had been aided in those arts by Beelzebub himself.
He went his old rounds; cracked nuts with the kittys; ducked for the apple, which never escaped his mouth; threw the weight in the barn; spaed fortunes with the Mauses; drank with the tosspots "If you can be blest the day, Ne'er defer it till the morn Peril still attends delay; As the fools will find, when they Have their happy hour forborne;"
"A blessing on your precious face!" she cried. "Twa joes o' mine: just twa o' my old joes, my hinny dear." "What did they suffer for?" I asked. "Ou, just for the guid cause," said she. "Aften I spaed to them the way that it would end. Twa shillin' Scots: no pickle mair; and there are twa bonny callants hingin' for't! They took it frae a wean belanged to Brouchton."
Lang it was ere he died; he strove, and strove sair, and could neither die nor live; but you half the country will see how ye'll grace the woodie. The party set up a hoarse laugh at Meg's prophecy. 'What made you come back here, ye auld beldam? said one of the gipsies; 'could ye not have staid where you were, and spaed fortunes to the Cumberland flats?
"A blessing on your precious face!" she cried. "Twa joes o'mine: just two o' my old joes, my hinny dear." "What did they suffer for?" I asked. "Ou, just for the guid cause," said she. "Aften I spaed to them the way that it would end. Twa shillin' Scots: no pickle mair; and there are twa bonny callants hingin' for 't! They took it frae a wean belanged to Brouchton."
Lang it was ere he died; he strove, and strove sair, and could neither die nor live; but you half the country will see how ye'll grace the woodie. The party set up a hoarse laugh at Meg's prophecy. 'What made you come back here, ye auld beldam? said one of the gipsies; 'could ye not have staid where you were, and spaed fortunes to the Cumberland flats?
"Because she spaed the lady's fortune too," he answered, "and she had to find out in the neighbourhood what it was like to be before she did so; you know that is half the art of the thing." "Yet your woman's guess that I was the man that's beyond me!" "I was struck myself when she out with that," he confessed. "Oh, she's a deep one, Jean!
'Well! if she never spaed wrong in her life, she spaes wrong now', said the man. 'Brandy and ale! why, I can't call to mind the day when we had such things in the house! 'Just look', said Peter; and the man did so, and there, sure enough, he found the drink, and you may fancy how merry and jolly he was.
See how ye'll die then lang it was ere he died he strove, and strove sair, and could neither die nor live; but you half the country will see how ye'll grace the woodie." The party set up a hoarse laugh at Meg's prophecy. "What made you come back here, ye auld beldame?" said one of the gipsies; "could ye not have staid where you were, and spaed fortunes to the Cumberland flats?
"Would you like your fortune spaed, sir?" asked my black friend, twitching his thumb in the direction of his wife, who was leering on me with a friendliness begot of the bottle. The place was full of deafening noises and peat-smoke.
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