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"This will do," thought the Scot, misled like continental nations by that little trait of ours; he opened the ball. "I'm saying my lads will ye gie ower this weary warrk a wee whilee and sheer a wheen sheep to me?" The men looked in his face, then at one another, and the proposal struck them as singularly droll. They burst out laughing in his face.
Johnny Coe and Tam Wylie and the baker were decent enough fellows in their way, but the others were the sons of scandal. Gourlay spoke of them as a "wheen damned auld wives." But Gourlay, to be sure, was not an impartial witness. The Bend o' the Brae was the favourite stance of the bodies: here they forgathered every day to pass judgment on the town's affairs.
Ov coorse he wur throwed in his tracks. "Now, you'd a-jumped up, an' frightened the rest away that's what you'd a done, strengers. But you see I knowd better. I knowd that so long's the critters didn't see my karkidge, they wan't a-gwine to mind the crack o' the gun. So I laid still, in behopes to git a wheen more o' them.
"There's a wheen of Frenchmen, seemingly," said the writer, oracularly, taking to the trimming of his nails with a piece of pumice-stone he kept for the purpose, and used so constantly that they looked like talons. "Now, what the devil do you mean?" cried Mac-Taggart. "Go on, go on with your business," squeaked Petullo, with an eye upon an inner door that led to his household.
"A've got a bit iv a thraytise scribbled down, furbye a wheen o' other wans on han'. A thought mebbe" and his glance rested on the angelface of the sleeping child "well, A thought mebbe it would do hur no harrum fur people till know that hur father well-as ye might say Nat but what she'll hev money in the bank, plaze God.
There's a wheen German horse down at Glasgow yonder; they ca' their commander Wittybody, or some sic name, though he's as grave and grewsome an auld Dutchman as e'er I saw." "Wittenbold, perhaps?" said Morton, "an old man, with grey hair and short black moustaches; speaks seldom?" "And smokes for ever," replied Niel Blane. "I see your honour kens the man.
The same caddie also remembered Blind Willie Stevenson, who was called Wandering Willie, and who ended his days 'unco beinly, in Sir Arthur Redgauntlet's ha' neuk. 'He had done the family some good turn, he said, 'specially when ane of the Argyle gentlemen was coming down on a wheen of them that had the "auld leaven" about them, and wad hae taen every man of them, and nae less nor headed and hanged them.
"Aih! but she was a patient cratur wi' a' flesh," persisted Mrs Mellis, as if she would not willingly be foiled in the attempt to extort for the dead some syllable of acknowledgment from the lips of her late companion. "'Deed she was that! a wheen ower patient wi' some. But that cam' o' haein mair hert nor brains. She had feelin's gien ye like and to spare. But I never took ower ony o' the stock.
"Poor craither," Anna said; "I wondther if she's got aanything besides broth?" Nobody knew. Anna thought she knew a way to find out. "Haave ye aany marbles, dear?" she asked me. "Aye, a wheen." "Wud ye give a wheen to me?" "Aye, are ye goin' t' shoot awhile? If ye are I'll give ye half an' shoot ye fur thim!" I said. "No, I jist want t' borra some." I handed out a handful of marbles.
"Hoot, mem! there's the minister at yer elbuck." "I tell ye, ye're but a wheen rouch men fowk! There's no a wuman amon' ye to haud things dacent, 'cep I gang mysel'. I'm no beggin' the minister's pardon ather. I'll gang. I maun see my puir Grizel till her last bed."
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