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"Craig-in-guilt," said Caleb, punning upon the word "craig," which in Scotch signifies throat; "if he is Craig-in-guilt just now, he is as likely to be Craig-in-peril as ony chield I ever saw; the loon has woodie written on his very visnomy, and I wad wager twa and a plack that hemp plaits his cravat yet." "You understand physiognomy, good Mr.
The major refused for a long time the man, who had been suspicious at first, to the great amusement of the rest, who seemed to relish the joke amazingly. The little nest of thatched huts in which they lived, was most beautifully situated on a rising spot, in the midst of a rich and luxuriant though not thick forest, about three miles to the northeast of Woodie.
I therefore answered his greeting cordially, and congratulated him on his late escape in circumstances when escape seemed impossible. "Ay," he replied, "there is as much between the craig and the woodie* as there is between the cup and the lip. But my peril was less than you may think, being a stranger to this country. * i.e. The throat and the withy.
No information could be obtained from the natives of lions ever being seen in the neighbourhood; numerous other animals appeared to abound, and that confirmed the opinion. They moved for Woodie on the 7th February, accompanied by two Arabs of Boo Saif. Major Denham left the kafila, and proceeded a little to the westward, making a parallel movement with the camels.
Then he winds up with uproarious praise of the "Bully Lager Beer!" and the long hours of night flit away on the wings of laughter, as birds dart onward, and are buried in the night. Are you there still, Gray? Do you sing still, Woodie? Health and happiness, comrades! All friendly stars smile on you! Across the years and the long leagues that divide us, I salute you!
"Ay, weel nigh!" "But what do you mean by saying that I have hanged you? Come, I insist on knowing!" "Oh, then I just ken a' anent the murder up at Lone Castle! Ye hae drawn me in till a robbery and murder, without me kenning onything anent it until a' was ower, and me with the waefu' woodie before me!"
"Wait," says Woodie, wavin' him one side. Now was them any proper motions for a grocery clerk to be goin' through? I leave it to you. Vee is watchin' with her nose wrinkled up, like she always does when anything stumps her; and me, I was just starin' open-faced and foolish. I couldn't get the connection at all. But Aunty ain't one to stand gaspin' over a mystery while her tongue's still workin'.
"I got over that," says he. "So I should hope," says she. "You manage to make a living at this sort of thing, I suppose?" "In a way," says he. "You've no family, I trust?" says Aunty. "There are six of us all told," admits Woodie humble. "Good heavens!" she gasps. "But I presume some of them are able to help you?" "A little," says Woodie. "Think of it!" says Aunty. "Six! And on such wages!
"She wunna hae time, lad," said Sharpitlaw; "the woodie will hae it's ain o' her before that a woman's heart takes a lang time o' breaking." "That's according to the stuff they are made o' sir," replied Ratcliffe "But to make a lang tale short, I canna undertake the job. It gangs against my conscience."
Lang it was ere he died; he strove, and strove sair, and could neither die nor live; but you half the country will see how ye'll grace the woodie. The party set up a hoarse laugh at Meg's prophecy. 'What made you come back here, ye auld beldam? said one of the gipsies; 'could ye not have staid where you were, and spaed fortunes to the Cumberland flats?
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