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Updated: August 5, 2024
"And who will it pe than her own son, Mistress Reekie?" answered the piper, calling her by her husband's nickname, as was usual, but, as was his sole wont, prefixing the title of respect, where custom would have employed but her Christian name. "Who'll should it pe put her own Malcolm?" he went on. "I see his poat come round ta Tead Head. She flits over the water like a pale ghost over Morven.
The doctor said it was a trance, but he was a sassanach and knew nothing about music; but it was the pipes prought the tead to. This is the air," and he played it with such vigour he nearly grew black in the face. "I believe it," sais I; "it has brought me to also, it has made me a new man, and brought me back to life again. Let us land the moose."
"Can I see a Chaplain?" "Shaplain! Shaplain! eh? Shust one tried to cross, and he fell tead on bridge. Not any follow him, I shure you. Too goot a chance to die, for Shaplains. What for you want him? Bray, eh?" The dying man, folding his hands upon his breast, nodded assent.
"I tell you vat means it all!" the vindictive little impostor, tiptoeing up to him, yelled at his cheek. "I make not vell my affairs in your country; I vould return to Faderlant; for conwenience I carry dis pappeer. I come here; I am suppose teaf; I accept de position to be your companion, for if a man hear, you kill him tead soon vid your book and your ten, twenty parish!
"Where is the Catanach woman gone?" cried the marquis. "Cone!" shouted the piper. "Cone! and her huspant will pe waiting to pe killing her! Och nan ochan!" "Her husband!" echoed the marquis. "Ach! she 'll not can pe helping it, my lort no more till one will pe tead and tat should pe ta woman, for she 'll pe a paad woman ta worstest woman efer was married, my lort."
"Ow, na; he's breathin' yet," answered Malcolm. "She'll not can co till ta tog will pe tead. Ta tog may want more killing." "What a horrible savage!" said one of the lairds, a justice of the peace. "He ought to be shut up in a madhouse."
I nefer did pe learning it, yat I nefer haf to say to myself 'What is it she would be saying? when I speak ta Gaelic; put she always has to set ta tead men that is ta vords on their feet, and put tem in pattle array, when she would pe speaking ta dull mechanic English. When she opens her mouth to it, ta Gaelic comes like a spring of pure water, Malcolm. Ta plenty of it must run out.
"Daddy!" cried Malcolm, "ye wadna kill twa Glenlyons in ae day wad ye?" "She would, my son Malcolm! fifty of ta poars in one preath! Tey are ta children of wrath, and tey haf to pe testructiont." "For an auld man ye hae killed enew for ae nicht," said Malcolm, and gently took the knife from his trembling hand. "Ye maun come hame the noo." "Is ta tog tead then?" asked Duncan eagerly.
"Tam it," said Peter, for we were so absorbed in listening to the music, we did not hear the approach of the boat, "ta ting is very coot, but it don't stir up te blood, and make you feel like a man, as ta pipes do! Did she ever hear barris an tailler? Fan she has done with her brass cow-horn, she will give it to you. It can wake the tead, that air.
Would you have him come in the tead of the night, and fly away with the roof of my house? Would you have all the crop of my carden come to nothing? for, look you, his epitaph says, "He that my pones shall ill pestow, Leek in his cround shall never crow."
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