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It's fair putrid to think o' a' the terrible hard wark we're daein' here to nae purpose. I wisht I was deid! Can ye len' 'us a bob? 'I ha'ena got it, Wullie; honest. Willie sadly shook his head. 'That moll o' yours, said he, 'is awfu' expensive. Ye've nae notion o' managin' weemen. Listen, an' I'll tell ye something. Ye mind last Monday?
She evaded his touch, asking how his parents had taken his enlistment. On his answering 'Dear, dear! she cried, with more horror than she may have felt, 'an here ye are, wastin' the precious time in triflin' conversation wi' me! 'It's you that's daein' the triflin', he retorted, with sudden spirit; 'an' it's your fau't I'm here noo instead o' at hame. 'Well, I never! she cried.
"Redswirehead," he says, like a man in a dream. "Redswirehead! That's at the tap o' the Clachlands Burn as ye gang ower to the Dreichil." "And what are ye daein' here? It's no your countryside ava, and ye're no fit noo for lang trampin'." "No," says he, in the same weak voice and wi' nae fushion in him, "but they winna hae me up yonder noo. I'm ower auld and useless.
He had to visit Mr Blurt, he said, and might perhaps sup with him. Pax would go with him. "Well, my lads, please yourselves," said Mr Flint, wheeling the old woman to the table, on which smoked a plentiful supply of her favourite sausages. "Let me take the cat off your lap, grannie," said May. "Let the cat be, lassie; it's daein' nae ill. Are the callants gaein' oot?"
"He knows what he's daein', lassie," he whispered, watching Andrew's face expectantly, and the girl stood petrified beside him. It came to her very certainly that her father had realized he had not strength to make what he called his allegiance to God, and that at the last he had sought the momentary strength of the whisky that he knew would shatter his glass heart.
"What are ye daein' up there?" said Speug, with ironic politeness; "that's no' the ordinar' road into the Seminary;" and then, as they hesitated on the edge of the water pipe, Speug conceived what was in these days a fine form of humour. "Come down," he said, "naebody 'ill touch ye"; and then he ordered an open passage to be made through the ranks of the Seminaries.
"Ay, he's in, but ye canna see him, for he's in his bed, and gin he disna mend faster than he wes daein' the last time a' gied him a cry, he's no like to be in the pulpit on Sabbath. A' wes juist thinkin' he wudna be the waur o' a doctor." "Do you mean to say that Doctor Saunderson is lying ill and no one nursing him?" and Kate eyed the housekeeper in a very unappreciative fashion.
Jess trailed her feet along the ground with cunning art, and held her shoulder against the stream; MacLure leant forward in his seat, a rein in each hand, and his eyes fixed on Hillocks, who was now standing up to the waist in the water, shouting directions and cheering on horse and driver. "Haud tae the richt, doctor; there's a hole yonder. Keep oot o't for ony sake. That's it; yir daein' fine.
"Go on, my lad, you're daein' fine!" Excitement was rousing the crowd to a great pitch, and yells and shouts of encouragement went up, and cheers rang out as the favored one went past the various groups of supporters. All during the race as the competitors circled the course, excitement grew, until the last round was reached, when every one seemed to go mad.
"Ay," he said, "they canna be ower weel off; for they hae had a lot to dae this while. You micht look to them, mither. We are no sae ill off noo, an' we can afford tae help them." "Weel, Rob, I've been aye givin' them a bit hand, buying beef for soup an' that' an' daein' a' I could. But I'm awfu' puttin' aboot ower puir Mysie.
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