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And there was my sister Molly's old man, Phelim, that was took bad wid the fever and he drank walth of whiskey, but it never did him a bit of good but when he lift off the whiskey, and drank nothin' but wather, he came round in a wake. O, dochthor, let me have the blissid water." "You must see your landlord about that." "You wouldn't sind me to him, dochthor."
Mount and ride to the Carewoodrig. The word's frae Branksome. I've but Ranklehope to raise, and then me and William's Tam will be on the road to join ye." "Whatna fray?" Sim asked blankly. "Ninemileburn. Bewcastle's marching. They riped the place at cockcrow, and took twenty-six kye, five horse and a walth o' plenishing.
"This meeting bodes luck," said Cuddie; "and they hae walth o' beef, that's ae thing certain, for here's a raw hide that has been about the hurdies o' a stot not half an hour syne it's warm yet." Encouraged by these appearances, they returned again to the house, and, announcing themselves as men in the same predicament with the inmates, clamoured loudly for admittance.
"No, no, sister; dampness and darkness are worse than spectres ours are spirits of light, and I would rather have you try the spell." "I will do that blythely, Monkbarns, an I had the ingredients, as my cookery book ca's them There was vervain and dill I mind that Davie Dibble will ken about them, though, maybe, he'll gie them Latin names and Peppercorn, we hae walth o' them, for"
"When we had gotten the victory, there were some o' the lads thocht that Bewcastle sud pay scot in beasts as weel as men. Sae Wat and a score mair rade off to lowse Geordie Musgrave's kye. The road's clear, and they'll be back ower Liddell by this time. Dod, there'll be walth o' plenishin' at the Ninemileburn." Sim was cheered by the news. If Wat got back more than his own he might be generous.
Sair wark he had to get the siller; but he was weel-freended, and at last he got the haill scraped thegether a thousand merks the maist of it was from a neighbour they ca'd Laurie Lapraik a sly tod. Laurie had walth o' gear could hunt wi' the hound and rin wi' the hare and be Whig or Tory, saunt or sinner, as the wind stood.
"No, no, sister; dampness and darkness are worse than spectres ours are spirits of light, and I would rather have you try the spell." "I will do that blythely, Monkbarns, an I had the ingredients, as my cookery book ca's them There was vervain and dill I mind that Davie Dibble will ken about them, though, maybe, he'll gie them Latin names and Peppercorn, we hae walth o' them, for"
"Well, Caleb, my old friend, is there any chance of supper?" said the Master of Ravenswood. "CHANCE of supper, your lordship?" said Caleb, with an emphasis of strong scorn at the implied doubt. "How should there be ony question of that, and us in your lordship's house? Chance of supper, indeed! But ye'll no be for butcher-meat? There's walth o' fat poultry, ready either for spit or brander.
A' flesh is grass," continued the coachman, exhaling an additional puff of whisky, and looking up devoutly at the ceiling. "Tak' those words in connection with that other Screepture: Many are ca'ad, but few are chosen. Lay the whole to heart; and what's your Walth, then? Dross, sirs! And your body? And your life?
Ye see they a' thoucht he was hame wi' a walth ayout figures stowed awa' somewhaur naebody kent whaur. Eh, but he was no a bonny man, an' fowk said he dee'd na a fairstrae deith: hoo that may be, I dinna weel ken: there WAR unco things aboot the affair things 'at winna weel bide speykin' o'. Ae thing's certain, an' that is,'at the place has never thriven sin syne.
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