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Stuart Geordie an' his father bided a' their lane. Their house was on the ither side o' the burn which crossed the high-road, a wee bit out o' the village. Time gie'd on for some time wi' them in this way.
In the gun were two sizes wee mustard-seed shot, and another sort that were several times larger. They were money. The mustard-seed shot represented milrays, the larger ones mills. So the gun was a purse; and very handy, too; you could pay out money in the dark with it, with accuracy; and you could carry it in your mouth; or in your vest pocket, if you had one.
"What do you mean?" exclaimed Vértessy, stammering with delight; he knew very well, all the time, what the doctor meant. "A wee, wee cherub has arrived," whispered the doctor "and 'tis a boy cherub too," he added with a still broader smile. The next moment Vértessy was kneeling down before his wife, and pressing her hands hundreds and hundreds of times to his burning lips.
But his evident terror, and the very incoherence of his narrative, told in his favor. "He's been a truthful lad all his days," his mother proudly testified; "while as to drink not a drop of spirits has passed his lips sin' I gev' him a wee drop for the spasms when he wes a wean!" And Aleck's blushing approval of the maternal statement bore witness to its truth.
At his word one of the swarthy sons entered and stood waiting, and through the open door to the common room I saw groups of sailors, asleep on the floor before the fire, and asleep on the benches where they sat; yet some hardened drinkers kept the drink going. "Ye see, Hamish," Dan whispered, "there's a big sea running, and these sailor boys would rather risk the floor than their wee boats."
Wee Andra had witnessed the meeting of that afternoon and was giving to the Neil boys what they apparently considered a side-splitting description of the affair. All his ministerial dignity rose to meet the insult. Sandy's voice could be heard distinctly above the others, interspersed with convulsive haw haws. "Great snakes! You did it that time, Don!
"I daresay I shall be content enough. But it seems like parting from home again, to think of leaving you all. My bonnie wee Rosie, what shall I ever do without you?" said Allan, caressing the little one who had clambered on his knee. "And what shall we do without you?" exclaimed a chorus of voices; and Norman added,
"No; she has been dead about ten years, and I left Jamaica some time before that, as my health could not stand the climate. I went from there to the northern part of the United States. From Bethlehem, where I remained several years, I went back to the old place, and when I got there Carmen was a wee little maiden, and I was told that Brother Mauer had left Jamaica for the East Indies."
The reason is because, this would utterly evacuate all human testimony; no man could testify, that he saw this pson do this or that thing, for it might be said, that it was ye devill in his shape." "To the 3d & 4th quests together: Whether a vitious pson foretelling some future event, or revealing of a secret, be a demonstration of familiarity with the devill? Wee say thus much."
The fire, jumping out, didn't hurt the cobbler one wee bit, but it burned the wicked men " Jinnie paused, gathered a deep breath, and brought to mind Lafe's droning voice when he had used the same words, "Burned 'em root and branch," declared she. Bobbie's face shone with happiness. "Is that all?" he begged. "Isn't it enough?" asked Jinnie, with tender chiding.
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