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"He was ahint the skerry when we were in the geo, and heard a'." "I might have guessed as much if I had not been an ass," Yaspard exclaimed. "I might have known that Pirate would only obey one of us from Moolapund." "Was the Laird awfu' angry?" Gibbie asked. "Yes, he was; but when I tell'd him as weel as I could hoo it a' cam aboot, and hoo lonesome Mr.
Bless you, Josiah! women folks can't live without their cronying and companying." "It's nobbut right she should pay ivery penny, and I tell'd her so last time I met her on Hallam Common." "Did ta? Why, thou hed gumption! Whativer did she say to thee?"
Hersell could hae tell'd ye that, but she thought ye wanted to see his house. 'Well, then, show me to this tavern. I suppose he will see me, as I come on business of some consequence? 'I dinna ken, sir, said the girl; 'he disna like to be disturbed on Saturdays wi' business; but he's aye civil to strangers.
"What way are you breakin' my rate?" he asked, when Walker told him of the reduction. "Oh, it's no' me," replied Walker. "It's Rundell. He thinks it can be worked for less than it's takin', and, of course, I've just to do as I am tell'd." "Weel, I don't ken," said Geordie. "But I've thocht for a lang while back that you had a hand in it. Have I done anything to ye, for I don't ken o' it?"
The Curtises have been flooding Uncle "Jaw's" meadows, and he is in a great stew about it. He says: "I took and tell'd your Uncle Izic to tell them 'ere Curtises that if the Devil did n't git 'em far flowing my medder arter that sort, I didn't see no use o' havin' any Devil." "Have you talked with the Curtises yourself?"
"But I think we're tell'd that there'll be mony mansions," says I; "an' nae doubt there'll be mony kinds o' occupation too. There'll be a chance for's a' bein' happy in oor ain wey, I'm thinkin'. I only wiss we was sure we wud a' get there." "Ah, Bawbie, lassie, that's whaur you're wyzer than the whole dollop o's," says the Smith.
And when he came back he tell'd the Laird that the Evil One wad have power over the knave-bairn that was that night born, and he charged him that the babe should be bred up in the ways of piety, and that he should aye hae a godly minister at his elbow to pray WI' the bairn and FOR him. And the aged man vanished away, and no man of this country ever saw mair o' him.
She soon run back wi' another bottle in her hand, an' I tell'd her 'twer pop she hed put down. "What hev you bin an' dun, sur?" she sed; "that wur a bottle o' Moses's shampane, at seven shillin's an' sixpence a bottle." I tell'd her I know'd 'twer nothin' but pop, as it fizzled so.
"My means, alas! are only worth the black coat I wear; but I am young I owe much to the family Can I do nothing?" "Ye can help to collect evidence, sir," said Saddletree; "if we could but find ony ane to say she had gien the least hint o' her condition, she wad be brought aft wi' a wat finger Mr. Crossmyloof tell'd me sae.
Now, as a matter of private amusement, this might have answered very well; but then Uncle Jaw was not satisfied to fight his own battles, but must needs go from house to house, narrating the whole length and breadth of the case, with all the says he's and says I's, and the I tell'd him's and he tell'd me's, which do either accompany or flow therefrom.
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