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It was something about a cart, I fancy, for the ghaist cried aye, Carter, carter " "Carta, you transformer of languages!" cried Oldbuck; "if my ancestor had learned no other language in the other world, at least he would not forget the Latinity for which he was so famous while in this." "Weel, weel, carta be it then, but they ca'd it carter that tell'd me the story.
An' I forgat to tell ye, there's been an unco inquiry after the auld wife that we saw in Bewcastle; the Sheriff's had folk ower the Limestane Edge after her, and down the Hermitage and Liddel, and a' gates, and a reward offered for her to appear o' fifty pound sterling, nae less; and Justice Forster, he's had out warrants, as I am tell'd, in Cumberland; and an unco ranging and ripeing they have had a' gates seeking for her; but she'll no be taen wi' them unless she likes, for a' that.
I tell'd the landlord hoo the thing happened, an' next mornin' at brakfast time you never heard sic lauchin'. A' the chaps were clappin' Sandy on the shuder; an' ane o' them says "Ay, man; it's no mony fowk that tak's their lum hat an' their umberell to their bed wi' them." But the auld skipper was the king amon' them a'. Hoo he raggit Sandy aboot bein' a somnambulashinist or something.
Hersell could hae tell'd ye that, but she thought ye wanted to see his house. 'Well, then, show me to this tavern. I suppose he will see me, as I come on business of some consequence? 'I dinna ken, sir, said the girl; 'he disna like to be disturbed on Saturdays wi' business; but he's aye civil to strangers.
He had scarce uttered the words, when it was rung again with greater violence than before; and the ecclesiastic, perceiving further expostulation impossible, lifted his finger at Macraw, with a menacing attitude, as he left the apartment. "I tell'd ye sae," said the Aberdeen man in a whisper to Edie, and then proceeded to open the door near which they had observed the chaplain stationed.
Zachary Boyd's translation o' the Scriptures better poetry need nane to be, as he had been tell'd by them that ken'd or suld hae ken'd about sic things."
Now theer worn't a word said at t' inquest about what that lot five on em, mind yer found when they reached t' dead corpse not one word! But I know Dan Scholes tell'd me!" "What did they find, then, Mestur Stringer?" asked an eager member of the assemblage. "What wor it?" The blacksmith's voice sank to a mysterious whisper. "I'll tell yer!" he replied. "They found Mrs.
I beckuned to the chap to stop the train, wi' me vork as I hed jest stuck into the last sausinger. I hed clapt a good mouthful in, or I could hev hollur'd loud enough vor him to heer. The train didn't stop, an' the vellers in green laughed to see I wur left in the lurch, as I tell'd them that Sairy Jane would be sure to meet the Lunnon train.
I have drank mony a glass wi' Glossin, man, that did you up, though he's a justice now. And then I'se warrant ye'll be for fire thir cauld nights, or if ye want candle, that's an expensive article, for it's against the rules. And now I've tell'd ye the head articles of the charge, and I dinna think there's muckle mair, though there will aye be some odd expenses ower and abune.
I had aye been used wi' him; for he often bided wi' us for days thegither; and while a boy I gave little heed to his odd ways an' wanderin' mode o' life; for he was very kind to mysel' an' a younger brither, an' we thought muckle o' him; but when we had grown up to manhood my father tell'd us what had changed Davy Stuart from a usefu' an' active man to the puir demented body he then was.
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