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"Arrah, stop there, ye rinaway jade! I know ye by yer big bag, ye big thafe, that ye are!" Glad at any voice addressed to her, and gladder at this than if it had been more familiar or more friendly, our forlorn maiden turned and said, in the sweetest voice imaginable, "Oh, no, my friend, I am not a thief." "Och, I beg your pardon, honey!
Haud him fast, Master Constable; I charge ye wi' him, for I am mista'en if he is not at the bottom of this rinaway business. He was aye getting the silly callant Alan awa wi' gigs, and horse, and the like of that, to Roslin, and Prestonpans, and a' the idle gates he could think of. He's a rinaway apprentice, that ane. 'Mr. Peebles, I said, 'do not do me wrong.
If a day's labourer refuse to work, ye'll grant a warrant to gar him do out his daurg if a wench quean rin away from her hairst, ye'll send her back to her heuck again if sae mickle as a collier or a salter make a moonlight flitting, ye will cleek him by the back-spaul in a minute of time and yet the damage canna amount to mair than a creelfu' of coals, and a forpit or twa of saut; and here is a chield taks leg from his engagement, and damages me to the tune of sax thousand punds sterling; that is, three thousand that I should win, and three thousand mair that I am like to lose; and you that ca' yourself a justice canna help a poor man to catch the rinaway?
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