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"Wouldn't I love to tell Splinterin' Andra that the minister could sing nigger songs and play a banjo. He'd say 'Show me the sinfu' instrument of Belial an' Ah'll smash it into a thoosand splinters!" She accompanied the speech with such an exaggerated imitation of the old man's vigorous gestures, using the poker in lieu of a cane, that the spectators shrieked with laughter.
"I' the ruthless pairsuit of his duty, Tam was patrollin' at a height o' twelve thoosand feet, his mind filled wi' beautifu' thochts aboot pay-day, when a cauld shiver passes doon the dauntless spine o' the wee hero. 'Tis a preemonition or warnin' o' peeril. He speers oop an' doon absint-mindedly fingerin' the mechanism of his seelver-plated Lewis gun.
'Wad she gie me a thoosand, d'ye think, if I were to speir? asked Liz; and Teen looked vexed at these idle words. She did not like the sarcastic, flippant mood, and she regarded Liz with strong disapproval and vague uneasiness in her glance. 'I dinna like the way ye speak, Liz, she said quietly. 'But, I say, if ye were in Glesca the noo, what wad ye dae? 'Dae?
He asked various questions concerning her "leddyship's" appearance at the police-court, as to which tidings had already reached Ayrshire, and pretended to be greatly shocked at the loss of the diamonds. "When they talk o' ten thoosand poond, that's a lee, nae doobt?" asked Andy. "No lie at all, I believe," said Greystock. "And her leddyship wad tak' aboot wi' her ten thoosand poond in a box?"
"I dinna haud wi' yon view o' the thing ava," said Bandy Wobster. "He wud hae's a' believe that fowk never grow a bit aulder in heaven. The thing appears to me to be ridic'lous. Elijah, a thoosand 'ear efter he was taen up, cam' back withoot being a bit cheenged ether ae wey or anither; that was his idea o't."
"Are you tellin' the story, or am I?" asked Tammas. "I kent fine 'at they were Persians. Weel, Miltiades had the matter o' twenty thoosand men wi' im', and when they got to the foot o' the mountain, behold there was two cocks fechtin'." "Man, man," said Hendry, "an' was there cocks in thae days?" "Ondoubtedly," said Tammas, "or hoo could thae twa hae been fechtin'?"
"That's a wee poem A' made oop oot o' ma ain heid, Captain, at a height of twenty-three thoosand feet. A'm thinkin' it's the highest poem in the wairld." "And you're not far wrong well, what happened?" "A' got hame," said Tam grimly, "an' ain o' yon Hoons did no' get hame. Mon! It took him an awfu' long time to fa'!"
"For the past five minutes A've been listenin' to the gay music of their tractors, bummin' like the mill hooter on a foggy morn there they are!" High in the dark heavens a tiny speck of red light glowed, lingered a moment and vanished. Then another, then a green that faded to white. "Thank the Lord!" breathed Blackie. "Light up!" "There's time," said Tam, "yon 'buses are fifteen thoosand up."
If 'ee was to set a corporal to lead twunty thoosand men, he'd gie them orders that wad thraw them into a deed lock, an' than naethin' short o' a miracle could git them oot o't. Mony a battle's been lost by brave men through bad gineralship, an' mony a battle's been won by puir enough bodies o' men because of their leader's administrative abeelity, Mrs Scholtz."
"It is computed by state by state by fellers that coont," said Tam, "that it takes seven thoosand shells to hit a flyin'-man by my own elaborate system of calculation, A' reckon that A've five thoosand shells to see before A' get the one that's marked wi' ma name an' address." And he summarily dismissed the matter from his mind for the night.
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