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Updated: June 4, 2025
"Deil ha'e 'im for an upsettin' rascal 'at hasna pride eneuch to haud him ohn lickit the gentry's shune! The man maun be fey! I houp he may, an' I wuss I saw the beerial o' 'im makin' for the kirkyaird. It's nae ill to wuss weel to a' body 'at wad be left! His nose is turnt twise the colour i' the last twa month. He'll be drinkin' byous.
"H-how much did you git for your wool, Chester h-how much?" "Guess you hain't here to talk about wool, Bije," said Chester, red with anger. "Kind of neglectin' the farm lately, I hear," observed Bijah. "Jethro Bass sent you up to find out how much I was neglectin' it," retorted Chester, throwing all caution to the winds. "Thinkin' of upsettin' Jethro, be you?
The whiskey was lent and returned, but Dinah Shadd, who had been just as eager as her husband in asking after old friends, rent me with "I take shame for you, Sorr, coming down here though the Saints know you're as welkim as the daylight whin you do come an' upsettin' Terence's head wid your nonsense about about fwhat's much betther forgotten.
Is this the job you said was going to be so satisfactory all 'round?" inquired Claire, her misgivings, in connection with her prospective pupil, by no means allayed. "Well, not eggsackly. I can't say it is. That job will come later. But we got to be pationate, an' not spoil it by upsettin' our kettles o' fish with boardin'-schools, an' such nonsense. Meanwhile we can put in time with Mrs.
If not for old lady Scogin, 'way up in the seventies, she'd never put her foot back in this dump. That girl had sense." "There's not a time she comes back here it don't have an upsettin' influence on you, Hanna." "I know what's upsettin' me, all right. I know!" He sighed heavily. "I'm just the way I am, Hanna, and there's no teachin' an old dog new tricks.
I fancy the potatoes grown in your little bit of ground, and boiled in your own black pot, taste sweeter, somehow, than all the fine dinners that Mrs. Larry will be giving you." "Thrue for ye, yer reverence," put in Dan, suddenly appearing in the doorway. "'Pon me word, I wish that ould letther an' all that was in it had stopped where it was, before it came upsettin' us that way.
Michael see, ye're upsettin' the sauce, that's a clean table-cloth the best of the joke is that he thinks your father's dead and you're keepin' it dark." Michael whistled. "Set a thief to catch a thief," said he. "Exac'ly what I told him!" cried the delighted dame. "I'll make him dance for that," said Michael. "Couldn't ye get the law of him some way?" suggested Teena truculently.
"It's no richt tae mak me responsible, for a' tried tae wile him awa tae the back o' the kirk whar naebody cud see him, but he's that thrawn and upsettin', if he didna gae tae the verra front seat afore the poopit. "'I want a good position, says he; 'I'll see everything here; sae a' left him an' gied tae Elspeth Macfadyen's seat.
"They are younger than Orrin, or Flint, and a dozen others that I can think of." "Yes, sir; but that's different, somehow. They're rather influential. They have a knack of upsettin' things in a quiet way that one can't take hold of. At least, if one does " "And you think they would be better in their own study again?" Emphatically Harrison and Craye were of that opinion.
The ol' man couldn't think up a come-back; so in about a minute he pushed back his chair, upsettin' it an' lettin' it lay where it fell. He went up to his room, slammin' the door after him, an' Barbie got out a pony an' galloped off to the hills. But the ol' man hadn't give up his project. He opened it again, an' was mighty crafty in the way he handled it, until finally he engineered it through.
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