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I knew very well that Wattie was not of the stamp to doubt the truth and splendor of "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp," or "Cinderella," as surveyed from the stage-box, in his confiding infancy, any more than to believing in baubles when the time came to justly discriminate.
I said it micht be set up at her heid, whaur she wad never fin' the weicht o' 't; but na, na! nane o' 't for her! She's ane 'at maun tak her ain gait, say the ither thing wha likes." It was Wattie Witherspail who spoke a thin shaving of a man, with a deep, harsh, indeed startling voice. "An' what ailed her at a stane?" returned the voice of Jonathan Auldbuird, the sexton.
Bandy Wobster's grandfather sell'd him a dog when he was there. He was a fine man, Wattie." Meg an' the bairns an' me gaed into the cab, an Sandy, he wud be up on the dickey aside the driver. As I cudda tell'd afore he gaed up, he wasna there five meenits when he was nearhand at the fechtin' wi' the man aboot the wey he drave his horse.
"Come on, Wattie," she said in a small, superior way, very much as if she had added: "These grown people have weaknesses which it is better for us to pretend not to know. They are going to talk about them." Mrs. Randall waited until the two little figures idled across the dooryard before she spoke. "I don't think you ought to act the way you do, Elick, just because you don't like Mr.
Our three new camels, Bluey, Hughie, and Wattie, were almost unmanageable; for not only had they been running loose for some time, but had never been well behaved or well looked after.
Later, she could hear his heavy breathing. She sat there in the dark until she heard Wattie whistling; then she got up and lit a candle and opened the door softly. The boy came loping up the path. "Mary France's got a beau!" he broke out, with a little snort of ridicule. His mother laid her hand on his arm.
Shortly after my call to Charleston, however, Wattie abandoned this pious and reflective posture, sitting bolt upright, beating back his tendency to thoughtful retirement with the aid of cloves and peppermints.
"Wattie," she said, "I want you to go out to the barn and harness up old Doll and the colt. I want you to go with me and Mary Frances over to grandfather Hazlitt's." The boy's mouth and eyes grew round. "To-night?" "Yes, right away. I don't want you to ask any questions, Wattie. Mother never yet told you to do anything wrong. Just go out and get the team, and be as quiet as you can."
I had heard that Sir Gilbert was constantly sailing her up and down the coast, and sometimes going well out to sea in her. On these occasions he was usually accompanied by a fisherlad whom he had picked up somehow or other: this lad, Wattie Mason, was down by the yacht when I reached her, and he gave me a glowering look when he found that I was to put his nose out for this time at any rate.
Half the mischeef o' watches is the ile." "But I don't see," said the doctor, "how that can be, Sim." "Weel, ye see, sir," answered Wattie and the words seemed somehow to have come tumbling silently down over the ridge of his nose, before he caught them in his mouth and articulated them "ye see, sir, watches is delicat things.
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