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Some of the biscuit was so bad that it had to be thrown away, and the remainder eaten, as Moses said, with closed eyes! "It's an ill wind that blaws naebody guid," said Macleod to Moses Pyne, as he came on deck to enjoy a pipe after their first dinner on board. "What d'ee think that queer cratur Flynn is doin' doon below?" "Nothing very useful, I daresay," said Moses. "Ye're wrang for ance.
Were not our ain folk cattle-lifting Hieland thieves lang after the days o' the Covenant?" "Christine, ye'll speak nae wrang o' the Sabays. It's an ill bird 'files its ain nest." "Weel, weel, John! The gude name o' the Sabays is i' thy hands now. But to speak from the heart, this thing touches thee nearer than Ragon Torr. Thou did not bring me out to speak only o' him."
Maggie had been "hardly spoken of," he admitted; but "I dinna approve o' the way oot o' trouble that she took," he added sternly. "Lasses ought to sit still and thole wrang, until He undertakes their case. If Maggie had bided in her hame a few weeks langer, He wad hae brought oot her righteousness as the noon-day.
For you ken, aunt, I'll ne'er deserve the wrang one." "Wad five shillings weekly be o'er much?" "Ay, it's a deal. But I'll gie it to you. And you can knit your ain stocking, and go and come as it likes you; and I'll mind my ain hame, and I'll pay you the siller every Saturday night." "I dinna like the talk o' siller sae near the Sawbath day. We'll hae the settlement on Saturday at noon."
What has happened?" he exclaimed, anxiously bending over the boy and raising him up, then dashing some cold tea from Robert's flask upon him, and forcing some between his lips. Then, when the boy showed signs of recovery, he plied him with anxious questions. "Where's yir faither? What's wrang?" But the boy only clung to him in wild terror, and nothing connected could be got from him.
"Lay me a pat-lid richt here, man. Soop her up soop, soop, man. Get her by the gaird. Let her be. I'm wrang, bring her ben the hoose. Stop stop, I'm tellin' ye. Noo, soop, soop her in, man." "Noo, minister, be up this time," cries Geordie. "Soop, soop her up. That's a graun' yin, minister.
"Neeps is neither here nor there," said the girl; and taking up her basket, she was going to leave the shop. "Bide a bit, my lass," cried Bruce. "The mistress wad like to see ye. Jist gang benn the hoose to her wi' yer basket, and see what she thinks o' the butter. I may be wrang, ye ken." So saying he opened the inner door, and ushered the young woman into the kitchen.
Suppose the thing 'at seemed richt to yer lordship, seemed wrang to me, what wad ye hae me du than?" "Do as I told you, and lay the blame on me." "Na, my lord, that winna haud: I bude to du what I thoucht richt, an' lay the blame upo' naebody, whatever cam o' 't." "You young hypocrite! Why did n't you tell me you meant to set up for a saint before I took you into my service?"
"The de'il wad look into his face, And swear he couldna wrang him."
"He aye can tell what's wrang wi' a body, an' maistly he can put ye richt, and there's nae new-fangled wys wi' him: a blister for the ootside an' Epsom salts for the inside dis his wark, an' they say there's no an herb on the hills he disna ken.
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