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"Oh! the women and children," said the weaver, with a disappointed air, "I was na thinking of them; they are weel enuch the men taks care o' them." "Not always the best care in the world," said Francis. "Children need protective legislation to guard them from being overworked by parents and masters.
But what fowk taks in han', fowk sud put oot o' han' in a proper mainner, and no misguggle 't a'thegither like yon. An' for what they say i' the toon, there's Mistress Catanach " "Mistress Catanach is a paad 'oman," said Duncan. "I wad advise you, piper, to haud a quaiet sough about her. She's no to be meddlet wi', Mistress Catanach, I can tell ye. Gien ye anger her, it'll be the waur for ye.
A'm no denying that he gaes far afield, and taks us tae strange lands when he's on his travels, but ye 'ill acknowledge that he gaithers mony treasures, and he aye comes back tae Christ." "No, I will not be saying that John Carmichael does not love Christ, for I hef seen the Lord in his sermons like a face through a lattice. Oh yes, and I hef felt the fragrance of the myrrh.
It's no muckle the likes o' us wants. He winna lat me gang far to the fishin', so that I hae the mair time to read an' gang to Mr Graham." As the youth spoke, the marquis eyed him with apparently growing interest. "But you haven't told me whether your boat is a proper one," said the lady. "Proper eneuch, mem, for what's required o' her. She taks guid fish."
"I willna gang," he exclaimed, "till ony kirk that pits oot the token at the sacrament, and taks up wi' they bit cairds they're usin' the noo. Cairds at the sacrament! it's fair insultin' to the Almichty." I parried the blow as best I could, and was on the verge of winning in the argument when he suddenly took another tack. "Forbye, I hae dune ma duty.
Shoo taks after her dad, that's what's wrang wi' Lizzie. A feckless gowk was Watmough; he couldn't frame to do owt but play t' fiddle i' t' sky-parlour, or sit ower t' fire eatin' fat-shives."
Only I doobt I'll be lang awa afore that, for it taks time to fess a man like that till's holy senses." The sixth of the family now entered, and his mother led him up to the bed. "The Lord preserve's!" cried Donal Grant, "it's the cratur! An' is that the gait they hae guidit him! The quaietest cratur an' the willin'est!" Donal began to choke. "Ye ken him than, laddie?" said his mother.
Menteith told papa, to require a man's whole energies for the next twenty years." "I wonder if I shall live so long. Well, I am glad, Helen. It will be something worth living for." Malcolm's saying that "if my lord taks a thing into his heid he'll do't, ye ken," was as true now as when the earl was a little boy. Mr.
"Will we pin him in this house, then?" inquired Davy, again resuming the conversation. "No; they might deny him. We'll wait whar we are a bit, till he comes oot. Dog him, if he taks the direction o' the jail, and nab him at a convenient opportunity." "He may bilk us." "We'll tak care o' that. We'll gie him heels for't, Davy, if that's his gemm."
There's no business doin' there'; and he shows him t' slates. So Beelzebub taks t' slates and looks at 'em, an' then he scrats his heead an' he says: 'I can't help it, your Majesty. It's Throp's wife; that's what's wrang wi' Cohen-eead. "'Throp's wife! Throp's wife! says Satan; 'an' who's Throp's wife to set hersen agean me?
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