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"Why," said he, "if these bills are not paid, the Glasgow merchant comes on the Hieland lairds, whae hae deil a boddle o' siller, and will like ill to spew up what is item a' spent They will turn desperate five hundred will rise that might hae sitten at hame the deil will gae ower Jock Wabster and the stopping of your father's house will hasten the outbreak that's been sae lang biding us."
"It'll be lang," he vowed to himsel, "or Willie Wabster hear the last o' this! and langer yet or he see the glint o' the siller he thoucht he was yirnin by 't! It's come and cairry 't hame himsel he sall, the muckle idiot! He may turn 't intil a breid-kist, or what he likes, the gomf!"
"What's this 'expelled' is, now?" said John Toodle, with a very considering look and tone in his uplifted face "properly speaking, that is," he added, implying that of course he knew the word in its ordinary sense, but was not sure of it "properly speaking." "Flung oot," said Drucken Wabster, speaking from the fullness of his own experience. "Whisht!" said a third. "Here's Tam Brodie.
"Yis, Pravast," hiccupped Brown, "he has! He's as phull of drink as a whelk-shell's phull of whelk. He's nearly as phull as meself and begorra, that's mighty phull." He stared suddenly, scratching his head solemnly as if the fact had just occurred to him. Then he winked. "You could set fire to his braith!" cried Wabster. "A match to his mouth would send him in a lowe."
His father, close behind him, tumbled over the obstruction, divined, in the light of a lamp in the passage, what the prostrate thing was, and scrambling to his feet with the only oath he had, I fully believe, ever uttered, cried: "Damn that fule, Willie Wabster!
They were nane sae fond o' the Master when they had him, I'll can tell ye that. Sorrow on his name! Never a guid word did I hear on his lips, nor naebody else, but just fleering and flyting and profane cursing deil hae him! There's nane kent his wickedness: him a gentleman! Did ever ye hear tell, Mr. Mackellar, o' Wully White the wabster? No?
"I wish you would take them out just now. Pray, tell me the news, if you have got any worth telling, for I can't stop here all night." "Than, if ye maun hae't, the folk in Lunnun are a' clean wud about this bit job in the north here." "Clean wood! what's that?" "Ou, just real daft neither to haud nor to bind a' hirdy-girdy clean through ither the deil's ower Jock Wabster."
On the Thursday morning the soutar came to inquire after his friends at Stanecross, and the gudewife gave him a message to Willie Wabster, the vricht, to see about the coffin.
Tod was a wabster to his trade; his loom stood in the but. There he sat, a muckle fat, white hash of a man like creish, wi' a kind of a holy smile that gart me scunner. The hand of him aye cawed the shuttle, but his een was steeked. We cried to him by his name, we skirted in the deid lug of him, we shook him by the shou'ther. Nae mainner o' service!
"Why," said he, "if these bills are not paid, the Glasgow merchant comes on the Hieland lairds, whae hae deil a boddle o' siller, and will like ill to spew up what is item a' spent They will turn desperate five hundred will rise that might hae sitten at hame the deil will gae ower Jock Wabster and the stopping of your father's house will hasten the outbreak that's been sae lang biding us."
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