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"Gude folk, as ye come frae the fair, Bide yont frae this black squad: There's nae sic savages elsewhere Allowed to wear cockad."
"Not him," he answered, "I've cheated him bonny, he hasna a notion wha I am. Corp, would you like a good laugh?" "That I would." "Weel, then, I'll tell you wha he thinks I am. Do you ken a little house yont the road a bitty irae Monypenny?" "I ken no sic house," said Corp, "except Aaron's." "Aaron's the man as bides in it," Tommy continued hastily, "at least I think that's the name.
"My dear," he said, "I don't see where you're to raise another matter o' saxpence this month." "But I've promised the ten pound on my honor," she said. "Would you have me break my word to a servant?" "Well well," temporized Mr. Traquair, "I'll have another look at the books. Mind, I'm not saying it can be done unless you'll sell a bit timber here and yont "
"But in that way at least I'm the poorest of soldiers; I never picked a quarrel, and yet here's one that sets my gorge to my palate, but cannot be fought on." "Tuts, tuts! man," he cried, "it seems that, after all, you must leave the opening of this little play to John M'Iver. Come with me a bit yont the Cross here and take a lesson."
Some of the feudal Rajahs had been "birsing yont," like the Breadalbanes, and the smaller zemindars were gravely disquieted. The result of the commission was that Ram Singh had his boundaries rectified, and lost a mile or two of country which his hard-fisted fathers had won. I know nothing of the rights of the matter, but there can be no doubt about Ram Singh's dissatisfaction.
"But will we no tell her, faither? Her mind canna be at ease afore she ken about some place." "That's weel minded too," said the father "she's maybe gotten a house already; but, in case she hasna, gang ye owre to your mither, an' tell her I bade ye get a piece; an', when ye've gotten it, ye can rin yont, some time afore it be dark, an' see a' about it.
This charm she sung to a wild tune, in a high and shrill voice, and, cutting three capers with such strength and agility as almost to touch the roof of the room, concluded, 'And now, Laird, will ye no order me a tass o' brandy? 'That you shall have, Meg. Sit down yont there at the door and tell us what news ye have heard at the fair o' Drumshourloch.
There's a man yont, named McTavish, will oost me frae hoose and name." "That would be the young gentleman stopping at the McTavish Arms." "Ah," said The McTavish, "he might stop here if he but knew." "He's no intending it, then," said Mr. Traquair, "for he called upon me this morning to hire the Duke's forest of Clackmanness." "Ah!" said The McTavish. "And now," said Mr.
I'm thinking a good deal of him mysel; and with your permission, Shaws, I'll be getting a wee yont amang the bents, so that I can see what way James goes." One after another went, till I was left alone beside the breakfast table; James to Dunkirk, Alan dogging him, Catriona up the stairs to her own chamber.
"No, no, I'll creep yont the hedge and climb the hen-house." "But it would be a' found out at any rate," she remembered, "when I go for the peats and things at Hogmanay." "It needna be," eagerly replied Tommy. "I'll bring them to you in a barrow in the dead o' night." "Could you?" she cried passionately, and he promised he would, and it may be mentioned here that he did.
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