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This day have ye quenched seven smoking hearths; see if the fire in your ain parlour burn the blyther for that. Ye have riven the thack off seven cottar houses; look if your ain roof-tree stand the faster. Ye may stable your stirks in the shealings at Derncleugh; see that the hare does not couch on the hearthstane at Ellangowan.
"Why, didn't I see with my own eyes as roof weer all bont off the top o' stable, and doors gone." "Yes; but the stable caught fire from the stacks," said Dick. "Yah! how could it? Why, it's reight the other side o' the house." "Well, couldn't the sparks and flames of fire float over and set light to the thatch?" cried Dick. "Set fire to the thack!" said Dave. "Ah, well, I warn't theer!
"Why, it's months sin' you've been to see me," said Dave. "Well, whose fault's that?" said Dick sharply. "I say, Dave, these nets are new." "Ay, every one of 'em. Made 'em all this summer." "Didn't you get lots of things spoiled when the flood came?" cried Tom. "N-no, lad, no. Nearly had my birds drownded, but I got 'em atop of the thack yonder."
Then suddenly, as if inspired, after a few minutes' silent reflection: "Seer Marcous, is this the marriage market?" "The what?" I gasped. "The marriage market. I read it in a book, yesterday. Miss Griggs gave it me to read aloud Tack Thack " "Thackeray?" "Ye-es. They come here to sell the young girls to men who want wives." She edged away from me, with a little movement of alarm.
This day have ye quenched seven smoking hearths; see if the fire in your ain parlour burn the blyther for that. Ye have riven the thack off seven cottar houses; look if your ain roof-tree stand the faster. Ye may stable your stirks in the shealings at Derncleugh; see that the hare does not couch on the hearthstane at Ellangowan.
There's a mune and a clear sky, and I'll hae the lave under thack and rape the morn. Syne I'm for Ninemileburn, and the coo 'ill be i' the byre by Setterday. Things micht be waur, and we'll warstle through yet. There was mair tint at Flodden." The last rays of October daylight that filtered through the straw lattice showed a woman's head on the pillow.
It was him and his randie mother began a' the mischief in this house." "Tut, tut," replied Cuddie, "ye should forget and forgie, mistress. Mither's in Glasgow wi' her tittie, and sall plague ye nae mair; and I'm the Captain's wallie now, and I keep him tighter in thack and rape than ever ye did; saw ye him ever sae weel put on as he is now?"
Tree, shed, barn, and chimney-stack, too, seemed to have been turned to the brilliant metal; but to the lad's great relief he saw that the wheelwright was wrong, the "thack" had not caught, and so far the house was safe, though the burning stacks were so near that at any moment the roof of the reed-thatched house might begin to blaze.
A moment after Mr. Pleydell called out, 'Here's our Liddesdale friend, I protest, with a strapping young fellow of the same calibre. His voice arrested Dinmont, who recognised him with equal surprise and pleasure. 'Od, if it's your honour we'll a' be as right and tight as thack and rape can make us.
This day have ye quenched seven smoking hearths; see if the fire in your ain parlour burn the blyther for that. Ye have riven the thack off seven cottar houses; look if your ain roof-tree stand the faster. Ye may stable your stirks in the shealings at Derncleugh; see that the hare does not couch on the hearthstane at Ellangowan.
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