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Updated: June 1, 2025
Two "brither Scots," happening to meet one day in Melbourne, one of them, presumably not long arrived, "speered" of the other, "Did ye ken ane Weelum Kerr here aboot?" "Weelum Kerr!" replied the other, in reproachful astonishment; "No ken Weelum Kerr, the greatest man in a' the toon!"
'I'll tell ye what's wrang wi' you, Macgreegor Robi'son! Willie cleared his throat noisily. 'Listen! Ye're ower weel aff. Ye've got a dacent fayther an' mither an' brither an' sister; ye've got a dacent uncle; ye've got a dacent girl. . . . An' what the hell ha'e I got? A rotten aunt! Maybe she canna help bein' rotten, but she is damp rotten!
She gied the girl's gude name awa' to win hersel' a bit honor wi' auld wives, and even the minister at first was against Maggie; sae when she couldna thole her trouble langer, she went to her brither, and folks say, he gied her the cold shoulder likewise.
My sister micht come whiles, she said, gien she camna ower aften; but lasses had naething to dee wi' brithers. Wha was to tell wha was or wha wasna my brither? I tellt her 'at a' my brithers was weel kenned for douce laads; an' she tellt me to haud my tongue, an' no speyk up; an' I cud hae jist gien her a guid cloot o' the lug I was that angert wi' her."
The Johnstons in their native "land o'cakes and brither Scots," had the reputation of being "heady," strong-minded, proud of their ancestral descent, and were regarded, at times, as being rather "rebellious" a trait of character which, in this last respect, some of their descendants strongly manifested in the late Confederate struggle, but in accordance with the most honorable and patriotic motives.
"Niest to faither an' mither an' big brither Wattie I lo'e Auld Jock an' Bobby." The bairnie's voice was smothered in the plaidie. Because it was dark and none were by to see, the reticent Scot could overflow in tender speech. His arm tightened around this one little ewe lamb of the human fold on cold slope farm.
"That wad be hard lines, though," insisted the gardener, unwilling to yield the unintelligibility of the ways of providence. "But," said Cosmo, "they say doon there, it was a brither o' the laird, no the laird himsel','at the English lord killt." "Na, na; they're a' wrang there, whaever says that.
"I want Davie to go 'prentice to your ain brither, guid wife it's nane o' my doing if you ca' your ain kin ill names and, Davie, your uncle maks you a fair offer, an' you'll just be a born fool to refuse it." "What is it, father?"
This was what he afterwards recalled by that time uncertain whether the whole thing had not been a dream: Catch yer naig an' pu' his tail: In his hin' heel ca' a nail; Rug his lugs frae ane anither Stan' up, an' ca' the king yer brither. When first he repeated them entire to himself, the old woman still muttering them, he could not help laughing, and the noise, though repressed, yet roused her.
'Weel, Shargar, it's grown something awfu' noo. It's Miss Lindsay. Was there iver sic a villain as that Lord Rothie that brither o' yours! 'I disoun 'im frae this verra 'oor, said Shargar solemnly. 'Something maun be dune. We'll awa' to the quay, an' see what'll turn up. I wonner hoo's the tide.
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