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Updated: May 12, 2025
I thought I would speak to you to-day, for we will hev to start early in the mornin', before you're up, for it iss a long way we'll hev to go. Iss it not so, Shames?" "Oo, ay," replied the seaman, with more than ever of the nasal twang; "it iss a coot many miles to where the poat comes in so the poy Tonal' wass tellin' me, what-e-ver."
"I'm thinking ye are right, Junkie. An' the creat thing to know iss where the ledges lie. He keeps well back from the watter also. There maun be somethin' in that, what-e-ver. Ye wull be tryin' it yoursel' the morn, maype." To this Junkie vouchsafed no reply, for the fisher, having secured his fish, was proceeding further up stream.
"Exactly; that was it," cried Archie, interrupting in his turn; "but you kept still standing, and so there were three figures in the picture when it was done, and your fist in the standing one came right in front of your own nose in the sitting one, for all the world as if you were going to knock yourself down. Such a mess it was altogether!" "That iss fery true. It wass a mess, what-e-ver!"
Roderick drove on also in silence, although much surprised that the "young shentleman" had not returned with the "leddy." But that was none of his business "what-e-ver." As the little old lady brooded over the matter, she resolved to say nothing of the meeting to Milly.
Here the thoughtful laird had given orders to have a cold collation spread, and here, with his guests, men-servants, boys, and neighbouring farmers around him, he sat down to supper. "We are a queer lot, what-e-ver!" remarked one of the farmers, with a deep sigh and a candid smile, as he looked round the company.
"Me preach!" exclaimed the laird; "I never did such a thing in my life." "Maype you'll read a chapter, what-e-ver," persisted the elder. "Impossible! I never read a chapter since I was born in public, I mean, of course. But why not do it yourself, man?" "So I would, sir, but my throat'll not stand it." "Is there no other elder who could do it?" "Not wan, sir.
But Shames said something to me, what-e-ver." "Just so; I forgot," continued Archie. "Well, McGregor said to the captain, `What would you think if we wass to sit still an' co into the pictur'?" "Oo, ay; that was just it, an' fery like him too," said the skipper, laughing at Archie's imitation, though he failed to recognise the similarity to his own drawling and nasal tones.
With a firm hand on the tiller he steered past the point, yet so closely that it seemed as if an active man might have leaped upon the outermost rock, which rose, black and solid, amid the surging foam. Another moment and the boat swept safely round into the bay, and was again put before the wind. "We're a' richt noo, what-e-ver," said Ian with a grunt of satisfaction.
To make matters more exasperating, at that moment the rod began to bend and the reel to spin jerkily. "A fush!" exclaimed Donald. "Looks like it," returned his friend drily. "I better gee a yell an' wauken him," suggested Donald. "Ye'd better no'," said Junkie, shaking his fist. "Yonder iss the end o' yer bonnet stickin' oot o' his pooch, what-e-ver," said Donald.
McPherson, who had sauntered towards the group, gazed in the direction where the horizon would have been visible had the fog been absent, and said: "Hm! weel " and then stopped, as if for the purpose of mature consideration. The audience waited for the announcement of the oracle's opinion. "Oo ay weel, ye see, many persons are strangely influenced by possibeelities, what-e-ver.
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