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"Weel, that's a' that a' mind, an' the rest a' leave tae yersel'. A've neither kith nor kin tae bury me, sae you an' the neeburs 'ill need tae lat me doon; but gin Tammas Mitchell or Saunders be stannin' near and lookin' as if they wud like a cord, gie't tae them, Paitrick.
Byars about the scarlet woman, and, strange to say, this led to the club's being allowed to meet in the town-house. The minister, after many days, discovered who his correspondent was, and succeeded in inveigling the stone-breaker to the manse. There, with the door snibbed, he opened out on Tammas, who, after his usual manner when hard pressed, pretended to be deaf.
"I stamped my foot, and she gae me an apologetic look, and she says, 'I canna help boasting about his being so fond o' me. "Ay, but here was me saying to mysel', 'Do your duty, Tammas Whamond; you sluggard, your duty, and without lifting my een frae her fingers I said sternly, 'The chances are, I said, 'that these mittens will never be worn by the hands they are worked for.
He wes transfigured that nicht, for a' 'm judgin' there's nae transfiguration like luve." "It's God's wull an' maun be borne, but it's a sair wull fur me, an' a' 'm no ungratefu' tae you, doctor, for a' ye've dune and what ye said the nicht," and Tammas went back to sit with Annie for the last time.
"Happen it's lonesomeness as drives him here so much." And happen you were right, charitable Jim. "Best mak' maist on it while he has it, 'cos he'll not have it for long," Tammas remarked amid applause. Even Parson Leggy allowed rather reluctantly, indeed, for he was but human that the little man was changed wonderfully for the better. "But I am afraid it may not last," he said.
Yet there looked little to pity in this jolly, rocking lad with the tousle of light hair and fresh, rosy countenance. "G'mornin', Mister Moore! Morn'n, Tammas! Morn'n, Sam'l!" he panted as he passed; and ran on through the hay-carpeted yard, round the corner of the stable, and into the house.
"It was Lang Tammas," she answered her mistress; "but he just came to say that " "Quick, Jean! what?" "Mr. Dishart has been called to a sick-bed in the country, ma'am to the farm o' Look-About-You; and as it's sic a rain, he's to bide there a' nicht." "And Whamond came through that rain to tell me this? How good of him. Was there any other message?"
He said nothing then or afterwards, for speech came only once in his lifetime to Tammas, but Annie whispered, "Ma ain dear man." When the doctor placed the precious bag beside Sir George in our solitary first next morning, he laid a cheque beside it and was about to leave. "No, no," said the great man. "Mrs.
How do you no answer me, Tammas? Hie, Tammas Whamond, whaur are you? He's gone! Ay, then I'll mak' tracks hame." In the broom a dogcart: "Do you see nothing yet, McKenzie?" "Scarce the broom at my knees, Rintoul. There is not a light on the hill." "McKenzie, can that schoolmaster have deceived us?" "It is probable." "Urge on the horse, however. There is a road through the broom, I know.
A thought ye wur farmin' in Victoria," he replied. "An' Collins is a purty common name, so it is; an' A did n't hear yer Chris'n name at all at all. But ye'll stap wi' me the night, an' we'll hev a graat cronia about oul' times." "That's just what I was looking forward to, Rory. Which way are you going now?" "No matther, Tammas.
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