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Hopps' misadventures of which Hillocks held the copyright. "Weel, MacLure had been awa a' nicht wi' a shepherd's wife Dunleith wy, and he comes here withoot drawin' bridle, mud up tae the cen. "'What's a dae here, Hillocks?" he cries; 'it's no an accident, is't? and when he got aff his horse he cud hardly stand wi' stiffness and tire.
"Ou, I was thinkin' ye wid be gaen the length o' T'nowhead the nicht, an' I saw Sanders Elshioner makkin's wy there an oor syne." "Did ye?" cried Sam'l, adding craftily, "but it's naething to me." "Tod, lad," said Henders, "gin ye dinna buckle to, Sanders'll be carryin' her off." Sam'l flung back his head and passed on. "Sam'l!" cried Henders after him. "Ay," said Sam'l, wheeling round.
Wy, his folks usen ter visit our white folks. I helt his horse fur 'im de many er time; an', let erlone dat, I knowed some uv his niggers; but den dat's ben er long time ergo." "But what was he writin' about Daddy?" asked Diddie, who remembered the picture too well to give up the "writing part." "He wuz jes signin' some kin' er deeds or sump'n," said Daddy.
'I thought you was. Your dad, 'e says ter me, "You dunno my daughter, Polly, do yer?" says 'e. "Na," says I, "I don't." "Well," says 'e, "You can't miss 'er when you see 'er." An' right enough I didn't. 'Mother says I'm all father, an' there ain't nothin' of 'er in me. Dad says it's lucky it ain't the other wy abaht, or e'd 'ave got a divorce. They both laughed.
I tole em haow it couldn't be so, caze ye wuz a deakin, an hed family prayers, and could pray mos' ez long ez parson. But I couldn't do nothin with em, they wuz so sot. Wy them fellers akchilly said ye took this ere clock a knowin that it wuz David's on'y one, wen ye hed a plenty o' yer own tew. Jess think o' that Squire. What a hoggish old hunks they took ye fer, didn't they, naow?"
'Chicken, returned Mr Toots, 'after the odious sentiments you have expressed, I shall be glad to part on such terms. 'Done then, said the Chicken. 'It's a bargain. This here conduct of yourn won't suit my book, Master. Wy, it's mean, said the Chicken; who seemed equally unable to get beyond that point, and to stop short of it. 'That's where it is; it's mean!
'Wy, Sammy, said the father, 'I ha'n't seen you, for two year and better. 'Nor more you have, old codger, replied the son. 'How's mother-in-law? 'Wy, I'll tell you what, Sammy, said Mr.
"He wes that carefu' o' himsel an' lazy that if it hedna been for the siller, a've often thocht, Milton, he wud never hae dune a handstroke o' wark in the Glen. "What scunnered me wes the wy the bairns were ta'en in wi' him.
"An' an enviable possession it is," said Hendry. "In a wy," admitted Tammas, "but no in a' wys." He hesitated, and then added in a low voice "As sure as death, Hendry, it sometimes taks grip o' me i' the kirk itsel, an' I can hardly keep frae lauchin'." In the lustiness of youth there are many who cannot feel that they, too, will die. The first fear stops the heart.
"I've noticed it this while back, though I didna ken I had noticed it, Gavinia. I wonder what can be the reason?" "It's because nobody cares," Gavinia replied sadly. Trust one woman to know another! "We a' care," said Corp, stoutly. "We're a' as nothing, Corp, when he doesna care. She's fond o' him, man." "Of course she is, in a wy. Whaur's the woman that could help it?"
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