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"The sparrow," he said, "that is next the eye seems larger than the eagle that is perched on Bengoile. You fear the Douglasses most, because they sit next to you. But be it as you will. You will not believe how wide our hills, and vales, and forests extend beyond the dusky barrier of yonder mountains, and you think all the world lies on the banks of the Tay.
"'I came away wit'out me breakfast, says he. 'Can you give me something without too much throuble? says he. 'Do you have anny of those buns there that I hear the men talking about? "'There's buns there, sir, says I, 'and I 'll make you a cup of tay or a cup of coffee as quick as I can, says I, being pleased at the b'ys giving me buns a good name to the likes of him.
"This won't help it much," said Westly, with a mingled smile and sigh, as he added a small nugget and a little gold-dust to the pile. "Ah! then, haven't I forgot the shuggar for the tay; but I've not got far to go for to get it. Just kape stirrin' the pot, Mister Westly, I'll be back in a minit." "Tom," said Westly, when their comrade had gone out, "don't give way to angry feelings.
"It didn't seem like five minutes, and I opened me eyes, and she was all quiet in the dark. And I said to meself, 'I won't disturb the dear lamb, and I crept into me room and tidied meself, and made a cup o' tay. And still she kept so quiet; so I drank me tay and did a bit of work.
He raised his head at length and said: "My father loves a jest, and when all is over he will take this frolic at no more serious rate than it deserves a fit of youth, with which he will deal as he has with others. Yonder, my masters, shows the old hold of Kinfauns, frowning above the Tay.
"We'll haave a blessin' by a rale ministher th' night," Mary said. "Oh, yis, that's thrue enough," my father said, "but Alec minds th' time whin it was blessin' enough to hev th' murphies don't ye, boy?" After "tay" I tacked a newspaper over the lower part of the window my father lit the candle and Mary put a few turfs on the fire and we sat as we used to sit so many years ago.
You want music." Ann Veronica agreed, and tried to make the manner of her assent cover a possible knowledge of a probable poem. "Splendid it must be to be a composer. Glorious! The Pastoral. Beethoven; he's the best of them. Don't you think? Tum, tay, tum, tay." Ann Veronica did. "What have you been doing since our last talk? Still cutting up rabbits and probing into things?
Bernard's Well, and the Pentland Hills compensated him for the change and filled him with cheerfulness and admiration. But I was impatient to arrive at the termination of my journey. We left Edinburgh in a week, passing through Coupar, St. Andrew's, and along the banks of the Tay, to Perth, where our friend expected us.
Tim laughed all the more at the faces I made, as I spluttered and fumed, trying vainly to get rid of the taste; for, I had swallowed about half a pint at least of the stuff. "It ain't as good as Paydro's tay that we had jist now, is it?" he observed consolingly.
That victorious nation, it is said, pretended to recognise the Tiber in the much more magnificent and navigable Tay, and to acknowledge the large level space, well known by the name of the North Inch, as having a near resemblance to their Campus Martins.
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