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'I thocht that was a'! he said with some satisfaction. 'I kent the string whan I heard it. But we'll sune get a new thairm till her, he added, in a tone of sorrowful commiseration and condolence, as he took the violin from the case, tenderly as if it had been a hurt child. One touch of the bow, drawing out a goul of grief, satisfied him that she was uninjured.
"'Fair, fa' your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o' the pudding race: Aboon them a' ye tak your place, Paunch, tripe, or thairm; Weel are ye worthy o' a grace As lang's my arm. "This bird is excellent; whoever cooked it, 'His name should be enrolled In Estcourt's book, whose gridiron's framed of gold.
Little Benjie seemed somewhat dismayed at my appearance; but, calculating on my placability, and remembering, perhaps, that the ill-used Solomon was no palfrey of mine, he speedily affected great glee, and almost in one breath assured the itinerants that I was 'a grand gentleman, and had plenty of money, and was very kind to poor folk; and informed me that this was 'Willie Steenson Wandering Willie the best fiddler that ever kittled thairm with horse-hair.
"It is very true," said the blind man, "that when I am tired of scraping thairm or singing ballants I whiles make a tale serve the turn among the country bodies; and I have some fearsome anes, that make the auld carlines shake on the settle, and the bits o' bairns skirl on their minnies out frae their beds.
We cannot all love Haggis, nor 'painch, tripe, and thairm, and all those rural dainties which you celebrate as 'warm-reekin, rich! 'Rather too rich, as the Young Lady said on an occasion recorded by Sam Weller. Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware That jaups in luggies; But, if ye wish her gratefu' prayer, Gie her a Haggis!
'It is very true, said the blind man, 'that when I am tired of scraping thairm or singing ballants, I whiles mak a tale serve the turn among the country bodies; and I have some fearsome anes, that make the auld carlines shake on the settle, and the bits o' bairns skirl on their minnies out frae their beds.
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