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It was to answer questions like that that men invented the devil, I believe; they like to say he put the grit in the machine that turned out Wullie, and made him like that out of perversity." "But what do you say?" she said, looking into his face. "I don't know. I think several things.
Only, above the stillness, came a sound from the bridge like the snore of a giant in his sleep, and blending, with it, a low, deep, purring thunder like some monster cat well pleased. "Wullie," came a solitary voice from the far side, "keep the bridge!"
In the course of the second round Willie achieved a smart clip on his opponent's ear, but next moment he received, as it seemed, an express train on the point of his nose, and straightway sat down in agony. 'Is't bled, Wullie? Macgregor presently inquired with compunction as well as satisfaction. 'It's near broke, ye ! groaned the sufferer, adding, 'I kent fine ye wud bate me.
Wullie, he! he!" And sometimes he would leap to his feet and address his pot-house audience, appealing to them passionately, satirically, tearfully, as the mood might be on him; and his theme was always the same: James Moore, Owd Bob, the Cup, and the plots agin him and his Wullie; and always he concluded with that hint of the surprise to come.
Only last year at the Trials he killed the young Cossack dog." A dull flash of passion swept across M'Adam's face. "Come here, Wullie!" he called. "Gin yon Hielant tyke attacks ye agin, ye're to be disqualified." He was unheeded. The battle for the Cup had begun little Pip leading the dance. On the opposite slope the babel had subsided now.
'The meenister, replied Miss Tod, who for some mysterious reason always guessed the reverend gentleman, who happened to be a customer. 'On the contrary, said Christina. 'Wullie Thomson, said Macgregor, suddenly remembering the borrowed threepence. 'Up dux! Ye deserve a sweetie. She presented the bag, open. 'What sort are they? He laughed and answered 'War Loan Lozengers.
By his side Red Wull was standing alert, hackles up, yellow fangs bared, eyes lurid; and, at his feet, the wee brown mouse lay still and lifeless. "Oot o' ma hoose! Back to Kenmuir! Back to yer " The unpardonable word, unmistakable, hovered for a second on his lips like some foul bubble, and never burst. "No mither this time!" panted David, racing round the table. "Wullie!"
The writer begs leave to say that he by no means wishes to bear hard against William Wallace, but he cannot help asking why, if William, Willie, or Wullie Wallace was such a particularly nice person, did his brother Scots betray him to a certain renowned southern warrior, called Edward Longshanks, who caused him to be hanged and cut into four in London, and his quarters to be placed over the gates of certain towns?
David shifted uneasily beneath that dim, persistent stare. "Well?" he said at length gruffly. The little man giggled, and his two thin hands took up their task again. "Aiblins his puir auld doited fool of a dad kens mair than the dear lad thinks for, ay, or wushes eh, Wullie, he! he!" "Then what is it you do know, or think yo' know?" David asked irritably. The little man nodded and chuckled.
"Tak' care, dad! I'll stan' but little more," the boy warned him in choking voice; and began to trim the lamp with trembling fingers. M'Adam forthwith addressed himself to Red Wull. "I suppose no man iver had sic a son as him, Wullie. Ye ken what I've done for him, an' ye ken hoo he's repaid it.
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