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Updated: June 7, 2025
And although I tell frankly what I am about, and why, yet all that the folks can or will see is that A chiel 's amang ye, takin' notes, And, faith, he'll prent 'em. Nothing worse than dour looks has yet befallen me, but other scribes have not got off so easy.
He chewed his knuckles with fierce intentness and thought the matter over. "A'm delayin' ma seventh warnin'," said Tam, "for A'm no' so sure that McMahl is aboot. A've no' seen the wee chiel for a gay lang time." Tam pulled at his cigar with a pained expression, removed the Corona from his mouth, eyeing it with a disappointed sneer, and sniffed disparagingly before he replied.
"Oh well of course, I say nothing against it. Only it is odd, for you. They little think what sort of chiel is amang them!" "What do you mean, Jude?" "Well a sceptic, to be plain." "How can you pain me so, dear Jude, in my trouble! Yet I know you didn't mean it. But you ought not to say that." "I won't. But I am much surprised!" "Well I want to tell you something else, Jude.
Nearer and dearer to hearts like ours was the Ettrick Shepherd, then in his full tide of song and story; but nearer and dearer still than he, or any living songster, was our ill-fated fellow-craftsman Tannahill. Poor weaver chiel! what we owe to you! your "Braes of Balquidder," and "Yon Burnside," and "Gloomy Winter," and the "Minstrel's" wailing ditty, and the noble "Gleneiffer."
He celebrates his expected departure in some verses more witty than moral, in which he addresses our islanders as follows: 'Jamaica bodies, use him weel, And hap him in a cosy biel, Ye'll find him aye a dainty chiel, And fu' of glee; He wadna wrang the very deil, That's ower the sea.
"You, ready to die for the quire," said Bowman reproachfully, "to stick up for the quire's enemy, William!" "Nobody will feel the loss of our church-work so much as I," said the old man firmly; "that you d'all know. I've a-been in the quire man and boy ever since I was a chiel of eleven.
"'Hout, mon, says Sawney, 'he is nae nateral, that chiel; he kens mair than maist men; he is nae that fool you take him to be. "Now, I am not such a fool as you take me to be, Squire.
I can't onriddle her, nohow." "Thou'st ought to be able to onriddle such a little chiel as she," the tranter observed. "The littler the maid, the bigger the riddle, to my mind. And coming of such a stock, too, she may well be a twister." "Yes; Geoffrey Day is a clever man if ever there was one. Never says anything: not he." "Never."
D'ye min' the time 'e jumpit on the carriage an' went doon wi' the rest o' them to bring oot the burnit uns? an' cam' up alive when Robert Burnham met his death? Ah, mon! no coward chiel 'd 'a' done like that." "Might not a child of very lowly birth do all the things you speak of under proper training and certain influences?" "Mayhap, but it's no' likely, no' likely. Hold! wait a bit!
Finch sat in silence, leaning forward and patting the boy's bowed head. "Ay, but he is rightly named," she said, at length. "Who?" asked Hughie, surprised. "Yon store-keepin' chiel." Then she added, "But ye're done wi' him and his tricks, and ye'll stand up against him and be a man for the wee laddies."
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