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Updated: July 29, 2025
What need the cheese merchant ken? it keepit the gudewife in bawbees frae week to week; and if she took a little cream frae the cheese now and than they werena a pin the waur o't, for she aye did it wi' decency and caution! Still, it is as well to dispose of this kind of butter quietly, to avoid gabble among ill-speakers.
There is a burden of a Scots song which, perhaps, may have sung itself in the ear of Louis, when life was at its darkest: "And werena my heart licht I wad die!" But soon, as usual, came the cold fit; his inspirations being intermittent for some untraced reason, physical or psychological.
It was strange changes." She mused a little, and then added: "Put it is something better wi' Croftangry when the changes is frae the field to the habited place, and not from the place of habitation to the desert; for Shanet, her nainsell, kent a glen where there were men as weel as there may be in Croftangry, and if there werena altogether sae mony of them, they were as good men in their tartan as the others in their broadcloth.
"I'll break the accursed neck of him," said Hobbie, "if there werena another Graeme in the land but himsell!" She proceeded to say, that she was carried southward along with the party, and the spoil which they drove before them, until they had crossed the Border.
Corp's face shone, but Gavinia said at once, "You werena sic great friends as that; were you, man?" "No," Corp replied gloomily. "Whatever has come over you both?" asked Tommy, in surprise. "You will be saying next, Gavinia, that we never played at Jacobites in the Den!" "I dinna deny that Corp and me played," Gavinia answered determinedly, "but you didna.
But what kind of a crime would this be that I had committed? or what kind of a process is this that I am fallen under? "I canna gainsay ye, Shaws. It looks unco under-hand," says Andie. "And werena the folk guid sound Whigs and true-blue Presbyterians I would hae seen them ayont Jordan and Jeroozlem or I would have set hand to it."
'Here, Dougal, said the laird, 'gie Steenie a tass of brandy downstairs, till I count the siller and write the receipt. But they werena weel out of the room, when Sir Robert gied a yelloch that garr'd the castle rock. Back ran Dougal in flew the livery-men yell on yell gied the laird, ilk ane mair awfu' than the ither.
An it werena for my mother and sisters, and poor Grace, I could find in my heart to put spurs to the beast, and loup ower the scaur into the water to make an end o't a'." In this disconsolate mood he turned his horse's bridle towards the cottage in which his family had found refuge. As he approached the door, he heard whispering and tittering amongst his sisters.
We were baith young, an' I was aye fairly healthy an' when we locked the door at nicht, we were satisfied that a' that belanged to us were inside, an' in safety, even though their wee stomachs maybe werena' ower fu'. But noo we canna do that, wife.
"And which of ye beat the other, Halcro?" she asked, with almost a boy's interest in a stand-up fight. "But I needna ask that, surely; for I can see fine that Tom had the worst of it. If it werena for that wee scratch on your cheek I wouldn't hae kenned ye had been in a fight; but as for Tom, why, he's just a perfect sight to look upon!"
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