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Yet he knew what was ahead of him; he knew what lay at the end of the trail he and Van Horn were traveling. Lawing, as Sleepy Cat contemptuously termed it, was the least of it all and the most futile yet in thinking of the other, her judgment was what he dreaded. This bore on him and perplexed him.
You are not so young in your trade as not to know there are hostelries in every town, much more in a city like Perth, where such as you may be harboured for your money, if you cannot find some gulls, more or fewer, to pay your lawing.
"It's this way. There's a scoovy after Paa, I'm told; he says he was there before 'Rosemary, which is a lie, and that his Gov'ment has given him title. He's got a kind of dough-dish up Portland way and starts for Paa as soon as ever he kin fit out. He's got no title, in course, but if he gits there afore we do and takes possession it'll take fifty years o' lawing an' injunctioning to git him off.
'I believe he is ane o' King George's state officers; at least he's aye for ganging on to the south, and he has a hantle siller, and never grudges onything till a poor body, or in the way of a lawing. 'He wants a guide and a horse frae hence to Edinburgh? 'Ay, and ye maun find it him forthwith. 'Ahem! It will be chargeable. 'He cares na for that a bodle.
"I would that that part of your duty relating to the hock-sinewing, and lawing of mastiffs, could be discontinued," said Richard. "I grieve to see a noble animal so mutilated."
If he meant to give your aunt the money before ever he got into this sad work o' lawing, it's the same as if he'd made away with the note himself; for he'd made up his mind to be that much poorer. But there's a deal o' things to be considered, young man," Mr.
KYLOE, a small Highland cow. LAIRD, squire, lord of the manor. LANG-LEGGIT, long-legged. LAWING, a tavern reckoning. LEE LAND, pasture land. LIE, a word used in old Scottish legal documents to call attention to the following word or phrase. LIFT, capture, carry off by theft. LIMMER, a jade. LOCH, a lake. LOON, an idle fellow, a lout, a rogue. LUCKIE, an elderly woman. LUG, an ear, a handle.
The good host seemed also to have some mental point to discuss, for he answered not instantly, debating perhaps whether his conscience would bear a double charge for the same guests. Apparently his conscience replied in the negative, though not without hesitation, for he at length replied "It's daffing to lee; it winna deny that the lawing is clean paid.
They got on board before the morning, and so away into the boundless West.* In such cockboats did these old heroes brave the unknown seas. "Three lords sat drinking late yestreen, And ere they paid the lawing, They set a combat them between, To fight it in the dawing" Scotch Ballad.
Take a drop ere thou goest," he concluded, offering her the tankard; "thou wilt get naething at night save Grantham gruel, nine grots and a gallon of water." Jeanie courteously declined the tankard, and inquired what was her "lawing?" "Thy lawing! Heaven help thee, wench! what ca'st thou that?" "It is I was wanting to ken what was to pay," replied Jeanie. "Pay?
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