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And the puir goat, she would be negleckit about a great toun like this; and she could feed bonnily on our lily lea by the burn side, and the hounds wad ken her in a day's time, and never fash her, and Grace wad milk her ilka morning wi' her ain hand, for Elshie's sake; for though he was thrawn and cankered in his converse, he likeit dumb creatures weel."

"Just a small tumble. It's very near mended already. Ay, I've had a grand walking tour, but the weather was a wee bit thrawn. It's nice to see you back again, Mamma. Now that I'm an idle man you and me must take a lot of jaunts together." She beams on him as she stays herself with Tibby's scones, and when the meal is ended, Dickson draws from his pocket a slim case.

God! but yon puir, thrawn, auld Covenanter's seen a heap o' human natur since he lookit his last on the musket barrels, if he never saw nane afore," she added, with a kind of wonder in her eyes. "I swear by my honour I have done her no wrong," said Archie. "I swear by my honour and the redemption of my soul that there shall none be done her. I have heard of this before.

"Hand up there, ye thrawn randy!" said Jess in byre tones. And so very sulkily Marly moved out, looking for Meg right and left as she did so. She had her feelings as well as any one, and she was not the first who had been annoyed by the sly, mischievous gipsy with the black eyes, who kept so quiet before folk.

Such is an accurate history of the Origin, Rise, Progress, and Fall of the Direct Glenmutchkin Railway. It contains a deep moral, if anybody has sense enough to see it; if not, I have a new project in my eye for next session, of which timely notice shall be given. THRAWN JANET, By Robert Louis Stevenson

His tale "Thrawn Janet" "is good," he says in a letter, with less vigour than but with as much truth as Thackeray exclaiming "that's genius," when he describes Becky's admiration of Rawdon's treatment of Lord Steyne, in the affray in Curzon Street. About the work of other men and novelists, or poets, we were almost invariably of the same mind; we were of one mind about the great Charles Gordon.

"It must be, Nelly; I daurna deny my father, and mony mair drink forby Auchtershiel; and if he cursed his last wife out and in, and drove her son across the sea, they were thrawn and cankered, and he was their richtfu' head. I'll speak him fair, and his green haughs are a braw jointure.

M'Intyre out in the wrong for saying what he did. The old man didn't say much more, only shook his head, saying 'Ah, ye're a grand laddie, and buirdly, and no that thrawn, either like ye, Dick, ye born deevil, looking at me. 'But I misdoot sair ye'll die wi' your boots on. There's a smack o' Johnnie Armstrong in the glint o' yer e'e. Ye'll be to dree yer weird, there's nae help for't.

The Kilspindie family had only recently come into the parish having purchased the larger part of the Carnegies' land and Drumtochty took a thrawn fit, and among other acts of war pulled down time after time certain new fences.

"Did ye ever hear the like?" A telegraphic message flashed across the table between Auntie Flora and Auntie Janet which Gavin did not see. "We jist have no life with him at all," said Auntie Flora, "he's that thrawn." "I think I'll jist have to take him in hand, myself," said the lively Auntie Janet. "I can manage them all but Auntie Janet," Gavin said brazenly.

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