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Dand would say; "and do you think, if I took Hob's siller, that I wouldna drink it or wear it on the lassies? And, anyway, my kingdom is no of this world. Either I'm a poet or else I'm nothing." Clem would remind him of old age. "I'll die young, like Robbie Burns," he would say stoutly. No question but he had a certain accomplishment in minor verse. His "Hermiston Burn," with its pretty refrain
They said they were Liberals and glad to hear the black nebs had won. The noise overhead of washing the deck awoke me, and I knew by the motion of the ship we were sailing. On getting up I saw Troon several miles behind and Ailsa Craig drawing near. Allan and myself, with Robbie between us, were snuggled on the lee side of the longboat when Kerr appeared.
Aboot a week syne I was busy at the back door, hingin' oot some bits o' things, an', hearin' some din i' the back shop, I took a bit glint in at the winda. Fancy my surprise, when here's Sandy i' the middle o' the flure garrin' his airms an' legs flee like the shakers o' Robbie Smith's "deevil."
Ducie, 'I think this'll be for you, then? she added, and handed me a letter from the hall table. It ran: 'DEAR MR. DUCIE, 'My single advice to you is to leave quam primum for the South. Yours, T. ROBBIE. That was short and sweet. It emphatically extinguished hope in one direction. No more was to be gotten of Robbie; and I wondered, from my heart, how much had been told him.
"You bet!" said Hughie, kissing her, and glad of the chance to get away. "Well, you will find something pretty nice in the pantry we saved for you. Guess what." "Don't know." "I know," shouted Robbie. "Pie! It's muzzie's pie. Muzzie tept it for 'oo." "Now, Robbie, you were not to tell," said his mother, shaking her finger at him.
Jenny appeared at the door, book in hand. "How can I leave the baby, Eurie? Robbie says he can't play with him he feels too sick. I think something ought to be done for Robbie; his cheeks are as red as scarlet."
And as one has beautifully said, 'What God takes it is always gain to lose. Heaven is nearer now our little Robbie is there; Jesus is dearer, and has quickened us all by His constraining love. "My object in going now to Canada without children is twofold.
And Robbie climbed into the cart. Mattha got up and went out in the road. The two men had hardly got clear away when Rotha entered the cottage all but breathless. "Robbie, where is he?" "Gone, just gone, not above two minutes," replied Liza, still whimpering. "Where?" "I scarce know to Penrith, I think. There was no keeping him back.
White with anger, he raised his hand to strike Liza, who thereupon drew up, and, giving him a vigorous slap on each cheek, said, "Keep thy neb oot of that, thoo bummeller, and go fratch with Robbie Anderson I hear he dinged thee ower, thoo sow-faced 'un." The mention of this name served as a timely reminder to Mr. Garth, who dropped his arm and rode away, muttering savagely under his breath.
The night was dark and bitterly cold, and once outside the town the glimmer of the lamps which the coach carried was all the light the passengers had for miles. A slight headache from which Robbie had suffered at intervals since the ducking of his head in the river at Wythburn had now quite disappeared, but a curious numbness, added to a degree of stupefaction, began to take its place.
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