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The first thing I tuik till was teachin'. Noo that's a braw thing, whan the laddies and lassies want to learn, and hae questons o' their ain to speir. But whan they dinna care, it's the verra deevil. Or lang, a'thing grew grey. I cared for naething and naebody. My verra dreams gaed frae me, or cam only to torment me, wi' the reid hert o' them changed to yallow and grey.
But where's the honest lad that tuik my quarrel on himself sae frankly? I'se bestow a gill o' aquavitae on him, an I suld never ca' for anither." * Archilowe, of unknown derivation, signifies a peace-offering. The champion for whom he looked around was, however, no longer to be seen.
And they tuik a' his property frae him. It wasna muckle a wheen hooses, and a kailyard or twa, wi' a bit fairmy on the tap o' a cauld hill near the sea-shore; but it was eneuch and to spare; and whan they tuik it frae him, he had naething left i' the warl' but his sons. Yer grandfather was born the verra day o' the battle, and the verra day 'at the news cam, the mother deed.
I may weel remember 't to my grief; for though he cam' hame as sober as he was drippin' weet I hae oor guidwife's testimony to that he gaed oot again, and whan he cam' hame ance mair, he was the waur o' drink for the first time sin' ever I kent him. Noo, sir, it a' took place the same day that ye cam' to the leebrary, and tuik awa' wi' ye a novell ca'd Aiken Drum.
Sae, whan they tuik themsels there, the freens o' the bonny man wud fill ane o' the roomies, and stan' awa in ilk ane o' the passages 'at gaed frae 't; and that w'y, though there cudna mony o' them see ane anither at ance, a gey lottie wud hear, some a', and some a hantle o' what was said. For there they cud speyk lood oot, and a body abune hear naething and suspec naething.
An' a man 'at in ane o' his gran'est verses cud haiver aboot the birth o' a yoong airthquack! losh! to think o' 't growin' an auld airthquack! haith, to me it's no up till a deuk-quack! sic a poet micht weel, I grant ye, be he ever sic a guid poet whan he tuik heed to what he said, he micht weel, I say, blether nonsense aboot the sea warrin' again' the rocks, an' sic stuff."
It wad be sair upo' baith o' 's to pairt an' to me a vex forby 'at the first thing w'alth did for me sud be to tak you awa'. It wad 'maist brak my hert to think 'at her 'at cam throu the lan' o' drowth wi' me ay, tuik me throu' 't' for, wantin' her, I wad hae fa'en to rise nae mair, sud gang on climmin' the dry hill-ro'd, an' me lyin' i' the bonny meadow-gerse at the fut o' 't.
An' some wad hae't he was ane o' them 'at tuik an' sauld the puir black fowk,'at cudna help bein' black, for as ootlandish as it maun luik I never saw nane o' the nation mysel' ony mair nor a corbie can help his feathers no bein' like a doo's; an' gien they turnt black for ony deevilry o' them 'at was their forbeirs, I kenna an' it maks naething to me or mine, I wad fain an' far raither du them a guid turn nor tak an' sell them; for gien their parents had sinned, the mair war they to be pitied.
"Na; there's ower mony o' ye lordship's jeists hae turnt fearsome earnest to them at tuik them!" "What mean ye, wuman?" "Wuman! quo' he? My name's Grisel Grant. Wha kens na auld Grizzie, 'at never turnt her back on freen' or foe? But I'm no gaein til affront yer lordship wi' the sicht o' yersel' afore fowk sae long, that is, as ye haud a quaiet souch.
I tuik aff yer weet claes, an' pat ye intil my bed till I got them dry." "An' hoo did ye wi' yer ain?" "By the time yours was dry, mine was dry tu." When they arrived at the cottage, Dorty demurred, but her master heard Cosmo's voice and rang his bell. "I little thought your father would have gone before me," said Mr. Simon. "I think I was aware of his death.
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