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"Eh mun, mun, if we are a' drooned, as seems likely, it's an awfu' thing to appear before your Maker wi' your meeserable soul a' steeped in drink." "You go down and have a drink yourself," Miggs cried huskily. "Na, na. If I am to dee, I'll dee sober." "You'll die a fool," the skipper shouted wrathfully.
You wi' your glass, could you no see yon man's drifting oot to sea?" "Hech!" cried the women, "he'll be drooned he'll be drooned!" "Yes; he'll be drooned!" cried Sandy, "if yon lassie does na come alongside him deevelich quick he's sair spent, I doot." Two spectators were now added to the scene, Mrs. Gatty and Lord Ipsden. Mrs. Gatty inquired what was the matter.
'I ken that, was Nicol's philosophical reply. 'Ye had no business to make fast the sheet of the lug-sail; ye might have drooned the lot of us. Nicol nodded. He had sinned, and was prepared to suffer. 'Have ye ought to say against your being lowered into the dungeon? 'I have not. Do you think I'm feared? said Nicol scornfully. 'Ye will not pay the penny? 'Deil a penny will I pay!
"I'm only gaun to sleep wi' Tibbie Dyster, puir blin' body!" "Lat the blin' sleep wi' the blin', an' come ye hame wi' me," said Robert oracularly, abusing several texts of Scripture in a breath, and pulling Annie away with him. "Ye'll be drooned afore the mornin' in some hole or ither, ye fashous rintheroot! And syne wha'll hae the wyte o' 't?"
"Where's the sense of biding here," said he, "to be burned to deeth wi' drought? Let's flood the mine, and drink or be drooned." "How can I flood the mine?" said Hope. "Yow know best, maister," said the man. "Why, how many tons of water did ye draw from yon tank every day?" "We conduct about five tons into a pit, and we send about five tons up to the surface daily."
"Av coorse he was," observed Ned O'Connor, an Irishman, who was afflicted with the belief that he was rather a witty fellow, "av coorse he was, an' a merry-maid she must have bin to see a human spider like him kickin' up such a dust in the say." "He's like a drooned rotten," observed John Watt; "tak' aff yer claes, man, an' wring them dry."
And the big fellow dropped his rough head on his arms and sobbed like a child. "Oh, Wallace; oh, Wallace!" whispered Mary, fairly wringing her hands; "it can't be! Over a thousand lost?" "Aye," he cried suddenly, bringing his heavy fist down with a crash on the wicker table, "they drooned them like rats God damn their bloody souls." His face, crimson with rage and pity, worked uncontrollably.
The Laird wis aye spakin' and spakin' o' getting yon things 'at they ca' lichthooses upo' wir isles, and he wad say hoo puir seafaring men wis drooned, and ships broken into shallmillins upo' the baus and skerries a' for want o' a licht upo' the laund. And, thinks I, there's plenty o' pates in Boden, and a gude pair o' haunds here tae mak a roogue 'at should lowe a muckle lowe ony nicht.
He wes oor only bairn, an' ah sometimes think the Lord surely micht a' left me him. But He kens best," she sighed brokenly, "aye, aye, He kens best. But it wes a hard day for me the last time they brocht ma Tam to me. He'd jist gaed awa wi' the lads aefter his supper, an' it wes no an oor, till they brocht ma bairnie hame drooned. An' ah couldna even see his bonny face.
"Av coorse he was," observed Ned O'Connor, an Irishman, who was afflicted with the belief that he was rather a witty fellow, "av coorse he was, an' a merry-maid she must have bin to see a human spider like him kickin' up such a dust in the say." "He's like a drooned rotten," observed John Watt; "tak' aff yer claes, man, an' wring them dry."
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