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Updated: May 24, 2025
"Oh! the old swimmin'-hole! When I last saw the place, The scenes was all changed, like the change in my face; The bridge of the railroad now crosses the spot Whare the old divin'-log lays sunk and fergot. And I stray down the banks whare the trees ust to be But never again will theyr shade shelter me!
"The elfin knight sate on the brae, The broom grows bonny, the broom grows fair; And by there came lilting a lady so gay, And we daurna gang down to the broom nae mair." "Whisht, Effie," said her sister; "our father's coming out o' the byre." The damsel stinted in her song. "Whare hae ye been sae late at e'en?" "It's no late, lass," answered Effie.
"No," sez I, getting up and lookin under the seet, "whare is she?" "It's hear it's everywhares," he sed. Sez I, "Why how you tawk!" and I gut up agin & lookt all round. "I must say, my fren," I continnered, as I resoomed my seet, "that I kan't see nothin of no krisis myself."
"To come hame, I behoved to ken whare hame was; now, I had clean tint the name of the wynd, and the mair I asked, the mair the folk leugh, and the farther they sent me wrang; sae I gave it up till God should send daylight to help me; and as I saw mysell near a kirk at the lang run, I e'en crap in to take up my night's quarters in the kirkyard."
"Ready, mister? Guess I'll come in my own boat," said the American; and he backed Mark farther to the side. "Look at old Soup, sir," whispered Tom, excitedly. "Yes; and Taters has got it too." "Here, hi!" shouted the American. "Whare air yew going?"
I doan' know 'xactly whare de teas 'll be dis arternoon, but ye kin tell de houses whar dar is a tea inside by de carriages a-waitin', an' ef it aint a tea, it's a fun'ral, and all yer's got to do is to go inside an' see if she's dar." I could not refrain from smiling, but I was greatly discouraged. How could I wait until evening for the desired interview?
Naebody ever kenn'd whare his uncle the prior earded him, or what he did wi' his gowd and silver, for he stood on the right o' halie kirk, and wad gie nae account to onybody. But the prophecy gat abroad in the country, that whenever Misticot's grave was fund out, the estate of Knockwinnock should be lost and won."
"The elfin knight sate on the brae, The broom grows bonny, the broom grows fair; And by there came lilting a lady so gay, And we daurna gang down to the broom nae mair." "Whisht, Effie," said her sister; "our father's coming out o' the byre." The damsel stinted in her song. "Whare hae ye been sae late at e'en?" "It's no late, lass," answered Effie.
"And whare is your honours gaun the day," said the mendicant, "wi' a' your picks and shules? Od, this will be some o' your tricks, Monkbarns: ye'll be for whirling some o' the auld monks down by yonder out o' their graves afore they hear the last call but, wi' your leave, I'se follow ye at ony rate, and see what ye mak o't."
"Na, whare was the through-stane, that it didna come before our een till e'enow?" said Ochiltree; "for I hae ken'd this auld kirk, man and bairn, for saxty lang years, and I neer noticed it afore; and it's nae sic mote neither, but what ane might see it in their parritch."
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