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There are many of the faithful, no doubt, in thir parts, but it's no to be denied that there are likewise goats among the sheep.
"Eh, sirs," said the old mendicant, as he took his place on the sheltered side of the large oak-tree to wait for his associate "Eh, sirs, but human nature's a wilful and wilyard thing! Is it not an unco lucre o' gain wad bring this Dousterdivel out in a blast o' wind like this, at twal o'clock at night, to thir wild gousty wa's? and amna I a bigger fule than himsell to bide here waiting for him?"
I told them her case was desperate. agreeably to thir request I opened the absess.
'Good merthiful graciouth Thir! ejaculated poor little Puddock, in a panic, and gazing up into the brawny fireworker's face with a pallid fascination; indeed they both looked unpleasantly unlike the popular conception of heroes on the eve of battle. 'But but it can't be you forget Dr. Sturk and oh, dear! the antidote. It I thay it can't be, Thir, said Puddock, rapidly.
She handed him the bit of paper; and he read these words: "Trew it is, that thir Ilandish men ar of nature verie prowd, suspicious, avaricious, full of decept and evill inventioun each aganis his nychtbour, be what way soever he may circumvin him.
"It ith nothing now. Maybe I'll thay it when we get to thea, provided Buthter doeth not thay it for me." "See here! We have forgotten all about that buried treasure," exclaimed Mr. McCarthy, at his ease once more after having escaped from the table. "Will you show me, Tommy?" "No, thir. That ith a dark thecret." "What, girls keep a secret?" scoffed the visitor.
"I'm just," said he, "taking a step to the provost's, to learn the particulars of thir great news for, as we are to hae the casting vote in the next election, there's no saying the good it may bring to us all gin we manage it wi' discretion." I reflected the while of a minute before I made any reply, and then I said
He couldnae weel tell how, maybe it was the cauld to his feet, but it cam' in upon him wi' a spate that there was some connection between thir twa, an' that either or baith o' them were bogles.
Wherever we thplathed it about, Thir, a bit, it'th thet everything growing ranker, Thir, than I ever thought anything could grow. Itth impothible to thtop a month, Thir. Itth more than our liveth are worth, Thir. Even if the waptheth don't thting uth, we thall be thuffocated by the creeper, Thir. You can't imagine, Thir unleth you come down to thee, Thir "
'In that case, said Waverley, determined not to spare civility, 'I should have thought a person of your appearance would not have been found on the road. 'Vera true, vera true, sir, replied the officer, 'but every why has its wherefore. Ye maun ken, the laird there bought a' thir beasts frae me to munt his troop, and agreed to pay for them according to the necessities and prices of the time.
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