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Hout! we maun a' dee when our ain time comes; but, somehow, I canna think that Jeanie ought to ha'e gane sae sune." "Who is Jeanie Burns? Tell me, James, something about her?" In compliance with my request, the man gave me the following story.
Dang the chap, muttered John, looking into the empty dish as the waiter retired; 'does he ca' this a pie three yoong pigeons and a troifling matther o' steak, and a crust so loight that you doant know when it's in your mooth and when it's gane? I wonder hoo many pies goes to a breakfast!
The driver cracked his whip and the horses started. "Aweel," said the landlord to himself, as he watched the chaise winding its way up the mountain-pass. "Aweel, I waur e'en just confounded to see the dook here away without the doochess; and I just after reading in the Times how they were married o' the day before yesterday, and gane for their wedding trip to Paris!
'Ay, and his affairs an' a', said the Deacon; 'the creditors have entered into possession o' the estate, and it's for sale; and some that made the maist by him I name nae names, but Mrs. I have a sma' matter due myself, but I would rather have lost it than gane to turn the auld man out of his house, and him just dying.
And if it be my lot to return to this village after ye are gane hame to your ain place, these auld withered hands will frame a stane of memorial, that your name may not perish from among the people. "I thanked Old Mortality for his kind intentions in my behalf, and heaved a sigh, not, I think, of regret so much as of resignation, to think of the chance that I might soon require his good offices.
'Miss Letty's compliments, sir, and Miss Naper has the keys, and she's gane till her bed, and we maunna disturb her. And it's time 'at a' honest fowk was in their beds tu. And gin Mr. Lammie wants a bed i' this hoose, he maun gang till 't. An' here's his can'le. Gude nicht to ye a', gentlemen. So saying, Meg set the lighted candle on the sideboard, and finally vanished.
"Sure, sure!" exclaimed Jenny "ower sure! a' the sea fencibles, and the land fencibles, and the volunteers and yeomanry, are on fit, and driving to Fairport as hard as horse and man can gang and auld Mucklebackit's gane wi' the lave muckle gude he'll do! Hech, sirs! he'll be missed the morn wha wad hae served king and country weel!"
I mind when it would hae driven me out to play amang the wreaths like a daft year-auld collie . Aye, and I am no sure that I wad not like a turn the noo not o' that saft stuff that will melt and be gane the morn's mornin', but the fine kind that sifts up your sleeve and down your neck! But for the puir herds on the hill, wae's me, it will be a wakerife time for them.
"'Du yer sheep mak ony resistance whan ye tak the lamb? or when it's gane, du they mak an ootcry! "'No, sir never. "The stranger gae a kin' o' a sigh, an' says he, "'That's no hoo they trait me!
"We were best ask Hutcheon," said my gudesire; "he kens a' the odd corners about as weel as another serving-man that is now gane, and that I wad not like to name." Aweel, Hutcheon, when he was asked, told them that a ruinous turret lang disused, next to the clock-house, only accessible by a ladder, for the opening was on the outside, above the battlements, was called of old the Cat's Cradle.
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