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Updated: June 17, 2025
"Do ye think there's any truth in that story aboot Smillie havin' sell't us?" "It wad be hard to ken," replied Matthew Maitland, taking his pipe out of his mouth and spitting savagely upon the ground. "But I heard it for a fact, and that a guid wheen o' men doon the country hae gaen back to their work through it.
I fash mysell little wi' lords o' state; they vex me wi' a wheen idle questions about their saddles, and curpels, and holsters and horse-furniture, and what they'll cost, and whan they'll be ready a wheen galloping geese my wife may serve the like o' them." "And so might she, in her day, hae served the best lord in the land, for as little as ye think o' her, Mr. Saddletree," said Mrs.
Wow! this is what I like, an' pays up for a wheen o' lazy days. How the blood does leap through a feller's veins when he feels he's in action again. Oscar, old boy, here's wishin' you all the compliments o' the season an' I hereby promise to send back whatever you throw me. Go on and do your stuff, old hoss I'm on to your game okay!"
"Huts!" said Brodie, "it's just a wheen bluff to blind folk!" "It would fit him better," said the Doctor, "if he spent some money on his daughter. She ought to pass the winter in a warmer locality than Barbie. The lassie has a poor chest! I told Gourlay, but he only gave a grunt. And 'oh, said Mrs.
I've a great notion of the family, and I mean to do the right by you; but while I'm taking a bit think to mysel' of what's the best thing to put you to whether the law, or the meenistry, or maybe the army, whilk is what boys are fondest of I wouldnae like the Balfours to be humbled before a wheen Hieland Campbells, and I'll ask you to keep your tongue within your teeth.
The man was clearly Scots, but his native speech was overlaid with something alien, something which might have been acquired in America or in going down to the sea in ships. He hitched his breeches, too, with a nautical air. "Is there nowhere else we can put up?" Dickson asked. "Not in this one-horse place. Just a wheen auld wives that packed thegether they haven't room for an extra hen.
"It's a fine nicht, Mysie," he began, stammering and halting before her, "though I think it is gaun to work to rain." "Ay," she responded hurriedly, her agitation growing, as she was forced to halt before him. "I've come oot on the muir a wheen o' nichts noo, to try an' meet you," he began, getting into the business right away, "an' I had begun to think you had stopped comin' owre."
"They did the best they could; but what was to be expeckit o' a wheen men that was dragged to the field against their wull, an' made to fecht afore they weel kent hoo to use their airms?" "Anyhow they gave us a chance to show what British soldiers can do," said Rattling Bill. "An' sure there's plenty more where they came from to give us another chance," said Flynn. "That's true, boys.
My uncle took the news of the wedding finely. "I'll not be denying Belle is a clever woman," says he, "a managing two-handed lass imphm. There might have been more of a splore," says he, "and no harm done a wheen hens and a keg would not have been out of place." But my aunt was not in his way of thinking. "You would not have him live there in open scandal?" said I.
"I think," answered Dame Winnie, "there's little bravery at it: neither meat nor drink, and just a wheen silver tippences to the poor folk; it was little worth while to come sae far a road for sae sma' profit, and us sae frail." "Out, wretch!" replied Dame Gourlay, "can a' the dainties they could gie us be half sae sweet as this hour's vengeance?
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