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Johnnie Cope, are ye waukin' yet?" And all the while this terrible mishap was occurring, the Choir in the hall farther down the street, just at the moment when all was going as ill as human affairs could go, was singing in false security, "All's Well!"
And Jock, who had been partly recovered from his terror by Nelly's presence, and partly by her assurance that she would become his wife rather than see him carried away by his spiritual foe, began to give them a most sublime account of the ghost. "I canna tell ye hoo it cam in," said he, "for it was i' the middle o' the floor afore I was waukin.
But whan I came to mysel', wasna I thankfu' 'at I wasna deid, for he micht hae gotten me than, an' there was nae sayin' what he micht hae dune til me! But, think ye, wad auntie Jean believe 'at I had seen him, or that it was onything but a dream 'at had come ower me, atween waukin' an' sleepin'! Na, no she! for she had sleepit throu' 't hersel'!"
"You must remember my lord doesn't go to bed for hours after you, Malcolm." "An' what can keep him up a' that time? It's no as gien he war efter the herrin', an' had the win' an' the watter an' the netfu's o' waumlin craturs to baud him waukin'." "Oh! he reads and writes, and sometimes goes walking about the grounds after everybody else is in bed," said Mrs Courthope, "he and his dog."
"Eh, my leddy!" he cried, after staring for a while in breathless bewilderment, "it's jist like a byke o' frozen bees! Eh! gien they war a' to come to life an' stick their stangs o' trowth intill a body, the waukin' up wad be awfu'! It jist gars my heid gang roon'!" he added, after a pause. "It is a fine thing," said the girl, "to have such a library." "'Deed is 't, my leddy!
She was up, though, lang afore he was wauken, an' she gaed almost strecht to the place whaur he had hod it. I believe she lay waukin a' nicht thinkin' oot whaur it would be. Ay, it was aneath the mattress. I saw her hodden't i' the back o' the drawer, but I didna let on." I quite believed Leeby when she told me afterwards that she had watched Jamie feeling beneath the mattress.
Johnnie Cope, are ye waukin' yet? Or are your drums a-beatin' yet? Now, with a slight variation on the words the measure ran Hey! Jamie Forrest, are ye waukin' yet? Or are your bailies snorin' yet? Then, after proceeding to run over the temptations which might he supposed to have overmastered the party, the writer dwelt with emphasis on a favourite breakfast dish in Scotland
He listened, smiling evilly, as I could see by the starlight; and when I had done he began to whistle a Jacobite air. It was the air made in mockery of General Cope's defeat at Prestonpans: "Hey, Johnnie Cope, are ye waukin' yet? And are your drums a-beatin' yet?" And it came in my mind that Alan, on the day of that battle, had been engaged upon the royal side. "Why do ye take that air, Mr.
But that wasna it, though whan they cam upo' 'm lyin' on's back i' the howe you'er 'at luiks up to my daughter's bit gerse for her coo', they thoucht he bude to hae sleepit there a' nicht. Sae he had, but it was the sleep 'at kens no waukin at least no the kin' o' waukin' 'at comes wi' the mornin'!"
But with the latch in his hand he turned, and, lo, there in the middle of the floor, with the child in her arms, stood the beautiful Maggie, as if in act to follow him: both were staring after him. "Dinna anger him, father," said Maggie; "he disna ken better!" "Weel ken I, my dautie, that he disna ken better; but I canna help thinkin he's maybe no that far frae the waukin.
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