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He's luikin as scared as a corp! I doobt that fule body the soutar's been angerin him wi' his havers!"
"'Go upon no such an errand, said your mother to both of us; 'for there is blood upon baith your brows, and there is death in your path. "'Havers, lassie! cried her faither angrily; 'are ye at your randering again? what blood do ye see on their brows mair than I do, or what death can ye perceive in their path?
On the morning of the 9th of September Cavendish sent Captain Havers with forty men on shore, and under the guidance of Michael Sancius they made their way two leagues up the country. Here they surprised three householders, with their wives and children, and some Indians, a carpenter, who was a Spaniard, and a Portuguese. They were all bound and compelled to accompany the seamen to the beach.
Old Andrew was still talking, his stick waving furiously. "It's railin' agen this, and rowin' agen that: it's Socialism and Anarchism and some other rubbishy ism every Sabbath. Man, why can the crater no preach the Gospel? Aye, an' we had a half an oor o' havers aboot infidelity last Sabbath. Tod!
Yince a'body was gled to see me, and wad keep me as lang's I wantit, and had aye a gud word at meeting and pairting. Noo it's a' changed, and my wark's dune." I saw fine that the man was daft, but what answer could I gie to his havers? Folk in the Callowa Glens are as kind as afore, but ill weather and auld age had put queer notions intil his heid.
Yes, he does that is to say, no man can read, even now, all that he has written about Pope, without thinking on the whole, somewhat indifferently of the man Pope. It is for this I abuse our friend Bowles. Shepherd. Ay, ay I recollect now some of the havers o' Boll's about the Blounts, Martha and Theresa, I think you call them.
"May gang to the deevil," interposed Major M'Toddy abeat in malam crucem, as a body may say We've no time for havers, i prae, sequar, as a body may say. What's the number of her room?" "No. 14," said the Captain, and the three gentlemen passed on. "Her room!" said Mr Clam, "another lady! Waiter!" "Yes sir."
"Hoots! havers!" exclaimed Ian, pouring out some of the liquid; "ye're jokin'." "In truth we are not, then," said Mabberly; "for we are all total abstainers." "Nonsense!" exclaimed Ian, who could not understand the principles or feelings of men who, after a long exhausting swim in their clothes, were capable of refusing whisky!
They are a' on the road to be maisters. Malcolm is a clever loon but he has a wee bee in his bonnet." The old lady smiled quizzically at her big, serious-faced son. "Noo, mither, ye're just talkin' havers," he said. "My mother is as great a Socialist as I am." "Ay, but A keep ma heid." "That ye do, mither.
Setting sail on the 24th, the Desire ran along the coast, past Manilla, putting to flight some frigates which had been sent after her, and dispersing some Spaniards who fired at her boat. One or two men died at this time, and on the last day of February Captain Havers succumbed to a burning ague, from which he had suffered several days, to the great grief of all on board.
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