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"Hoot! lassie, an' air ye sech a fechless tomboy that a mon mun keep his een sticket on ye a' the time?" the Scot angrily demanded. "How cud ye be sech a nickum as to try sitting in yon Deev's Chair?" "Ask ask the other nickum; he did it first," flung back the rescued one.
On one thing I was determined never to enter the Church; but this resolution I kept faithfully to myself. I had nothing for it now but to forget my sacerdotal prospects, which, as I have said, had already been renounced, or to sink down as many others like me had done, into a mere tiller of the earth, a character in Ireland far more unpopular than that which the Scotch call "a sticket minister!"
Perhaps a sticket minister might have a hand in making a minister that would not stick. Then the master read Truffey's queer composition aloud, and notwithstanding all his conscientious criticism, Truffey was delighted with his own work when removed to an objective distance by the master's reading. At length Mr Malison said: "It's time to go home, Andrew Truffey. Put on my cloak there.
If you think of such a thing for a moment, I declare I'll take second thoughts and go away myself." "Weel, I aye thought you might have done as weel to consider a wee afore you gave Mr Foster his answer," said Janet, not heeding Graeme's impatient answer. "Janet! A sticket minister!" "My dear, he's no' a sticket minister. He passed his examinations with great credit to himself.
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