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Bedad, they're all sick wid fear, an' half a dozen worse than poor Scotty there, God rest his sowl!" The doctor thought a minute, then turning to Shorty he said, speaking rapidly, "Go and bring to this room the foreman and Swipey. And say not a word to anyone, mind that. And you," he said, turning to Tommy, "can you start back in an hour?" "I can that same, if I must." "You know the road.
'A muddling and a swipey old child, said Miss Wren, rating him with great severity, 'fit for nothing but to be preserved in the liquor that destroys him, and put in a great glass bottle as a sight for other swipey children of his own pattern, if he has no consideration for his liver, has he none for his mother? 'Yes. Deration, oh don't! cried the subject of these angry remarks.
"Johnny," she cried in concern, "what's the matter with your lip, dear? Has ainybody been meddling ye?" "It was Swipey Broon," he said. "Did ever a body hear?" she cried. "Things have come to a fine pass when decent weans canna go to the school without a wheen rag-folk yoking on them! But what can a body ettle? Scotland's not what it used to be! It's owrerun wi' the dirty Eerish!"
And then he would begin to expatiate for the benefit of young Gourlay for Swipey, though his name was the base Teutonic Brown, had a Celtic contempt for brute facts that cripple the imperial mind. So well did he expatiate that young Gourlay would slink home to his mother and say, "Yah, even Swipey Broon has been to Fechars, though my faither 'ull no allow me!"
"The saints be good to us! Are ye alive at all?" He lifted back the buffalo robe from the sick man's face and he found him breathing heavily, but unable to speak. "Where's yer doctor?" "Haven't seen him raound," said Swipey. "Have you, Shorty?" "Yes," replied the man called Shorty. "He's in there with the boys." Tommy swore a great oath.
"Ou, just drinking, ye know, wi' wi' Swipey Broon and, eh, and that M'Craw, ye know and Sandy Hull and a wheen mair o' that kind ye ken the kind; a verra bad lot!" said Sandy, and wagged a disapproving pow. "Here they all got as drunk as drunk could be, and started fighting wi' the colliers! Young Gourlay got a bloodied nose!
He's only a little swipey, you know. Mr Bailey reeled in his boots, to express intoxication. 'Have you come from Mrs Todgers's? asked Merry, trembling. 'Todgers's, bless you! No! cried Mr Bailey. 'I haven't got nothin, to do with Todgers's. I cut that connection long ago. He's been a-dining with my governor at the west-end. Didn't you know he was a-coming to see us? 'No, she said, faintly.
Gourlay raised his in answer to their nod. But the moment after, and in their hearing, he yelled blatantly to Swipey Broon to come on and have a drink of beer. Swipey was a sweep now, for Brown the ragman had added chimney-cleaning to his other occupations plurality of professions, you observe, being one of the features of the life of Barbie.
John's taunt was calculated, therefore, to sting him to the quick. The scion of the Broons, fired for the honour of his house, drove straight at the mouth of the insulter. But John jouked to the side, and Swipey skinned his knuckles on the wall.
I'll have the fine times when I leave the schule and that winna be long now, for I'm clean sick o't; I'll no bide a day longer than I need! I'm to go into the business, and then I'll have the times. I'll dash about the country in a gig wi' two dogs wallopping ahin'. I'll have the great life o't." "Ph-tt!" said Swipey Broon, and planted a gob of mud right in the middle of his brow.
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