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Updated: June 29, 2025
We shall have to be content with God there! 'I said naething about h'aven, mem! Fowk may ken are anither and no be in ae place. I took note i' the kirk last Sunday 'at Abrahaam kent the rich man, and the rich man him, and they warna i' the same place.
I thank you kindly for comin', for it's little wage ye get by walkin' through the wet fields to see an old woman like me....Nay, I'n got no daughter o' my own ne'er had one an' I warna sorry, for they're poor queechy things, gells is; I allays wanted to ha' lads, as could fend for theirsens. An' the lads 'ull be marryin' I shall ha' daughters eno', an' too many.
An' maybe she wadna care gien 't warna for the oogliness o' 'im. Sae be he was a bonny sin, I'm thinkin' she wad hide him weel eneuch.
But, man, ye're jist behavin' to me like God himsel', an' gin it warna for you, I wad jist lie here roarin' an' greitin' an' damnin' frae mornin' to nicht. Ye will be in the morn's night willna ye? he would always end by asking with some anxiety. 'Of coorse I will, Robert would answer. 'Gude nicht, than, gude nicht. I'll try and get a sicht o' my sins ance mair, he added, one evening.
For ance 'at there cam the markis to the hoose whan things warna freely sae scant aboot the place as they hae been sin' yer father cam to the throne there cam at his back a fearsome storm, sic as comes but seldom in a life lang as mine, an' sic 'at his lordship cudna win awa'. Thereupon yer father, that is, yer gran'father, or it wad be yer grit-gran'father I'm turnin' some confused amo' ye: ye aye keep comin'! onyhoo, he gae the captain a kent like,'at he wad du weel to offer his room til's lordship.
"Why, Mother," he said, "how is it as Father's working so late?" "It's none o' thy feyther as is a-workin' thee might know that well anoof if thy head warna full o' chapellin' it's thy brother as does iverything, for there's niver nobody else i' th' way to do nothin'."
I never cud unnerstan' that." "Hoo ken ye that they warna hearkent till?" asked Alec. "Luik at me! Do ye ca' that hearkenin' till a prayer? Luik what she got me back for. Ca' ye that an answer to prayers like my auld mither's? Faith! I'll be forced to repent some day for her sake, though there sudna be anither woman atween Venus and Mars but wad rive wi' lauchin at a word frae Cosmo Cupples.
As a faither, what could I do? I paid him the money, and they were married. "It's o' nae use tellin' ye how I gaed back in the farm. In the year sixteen my crops warna worth takin' aff the ground, and I had twa score o' sheep smothered the same winter. I fell behint wi' my rent; and household furniture, farm-stock, and everything I had, were to be sold off.
'Ye canna du better nor weel; jist begin again. 'I had coft her a bonny cairriage, wi' as fine a pair as ever ye saw, Kirsty, as I daursay yer father has telled ye. And they warna lost upon her, for she had aye a gleg ee for a horse. Ye min' yon powny? And up til yesterday, a' gaed weel, till I was thinkin I cud trust her onygait.
'How came you to think of such things at your age? 'I'm thinkin', answered Robert, 'ye warna muckle aulder nor mysel' whan ye took to sic things, Mr. Ericson. She's deid noo. Not understanding him, Ericson began to question, and out came the story of the violins. They talked on till the last of their coals was burnt out, and then they went to bed.
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