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"Och! she 'll trest him herself." said Duncan, still jealous of the women who had nursed the child. "But no aye?" suggested Miss Horn. "Mistress Partan will pe toing a coot teal of tressing him, sometimes. Mistress Partan is a coot 'oman when she 'll pe coot fery coot when she 'll be coot." Here Malcolm entered, and Miss Horn told him what she had seen of the laird, and gathered concerning him.
Malcolm made signs that prayed for silence, and pointed to his grandfather. But it was too late. "Hurt your hand, Malcolm, my son," cried Duncan, with surprise and anxiety mingled. "How will you pe toing tat?" "Here's a bonny yoong leddy come to see ye, daddy," said Malcolm, seeking to turn the question aside.
"Something like that. We 'll see how it goes. If he does n't like it, he can drop it. It 's more that I want to have him about me than anything else. I want to do something for him when I have a chance. I like him." "My lort will pe toing ta laad a creat honour," said Duncan. "Put," he added, with a sigh, "she 'll pe lonely, her nainsel!"
Cawmill of Clenlyon, Cod curse him! came to her pedside; and he'll say to her, 'MacDhonuill, he said, for pein' a tead man he would pe knowing my name, 'MacDhonuill, he said, 'what tid you'll pe meaning py turking my posterity? And she answered and said to him, 'I pray it had peen yourself, you tamned Clenlyon. And he said to me, 'It 'll pe no coot wishing tat; it would be toing you no coot to turk me, for I'm a tead man. 'And a tamned man, says herself, and would haf taken him py ta troat, put she couldn't mofe.
But as Duncan yielded his weapon, Malcolm lost his hold on him. He darted away, caught his dirk a blade of unusual length from its sheath, and shot in the direction of the last word he had heard. Malcolm dropped the sword and sprung after him. "Gif her ta fillain by ta troat," screamed the old man. "She 'll stap his pag! She'll cut his chanter in two! She'll pe toing it!
He is tead more than a hundert years." "Then why do you hate him so?" "Och hone! Ton't you'll never hear why?" "He can't have done you any harm." "Not done old Tuncan any harm! Tidn't you'll know what ta tog would pe toing to her aancestors of Glenco? Och hone! Och hone!
'Well, I'm not so sure of tat, says he, 'for I 'fe pecked all teir partons. 'And tid tey gif tem to you, you tog? says herself. 'Well, I'm not sure, says he; 'anyhow, I'm not tamned fery much yet. 'She'll pe much sorry to hear it, says herself. And she took care aalways to pe calling him some paad name, so tat he shouldn't say she 'll be forgifing him, whatever ta rest of tem might be toing.
Unto him the King with no smile on his face gave the job of toing and froing up and down the hill with the biggest and the frailest dung-basket that there was; and thereat the silken lord screwed up a grin, that was sport to see, and all the lords laughed; and as he turned away he said, yet so that none heard him, "Do I serve this son's son of a whore that he should bid me carry dung?"
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