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Updated: June 13, 2025
"'Od save us, Janet, woman, look, look look! do ye see wha it is! Confound me, if it isna the very chield that I gied the clout in the lug to in your mother's the other night for his good behaviour. Weel, as sure as death, I gie him credit for what he has done he's ta'en the measure o' their feet, onyway!
An' that's Meg Horn!" "She had been at the drink! But I never h'ard it laid till her afore." "Didna ye than? Weel, I'm no sayin' onything that's what I h'ard." "Ow, it's like eneuch! "Whaten a craw had she to pluck wi' you, no?" "Ow fegs! ye wad hae ta'en her for a thief catcher, and me for the thief! Wae 's me 'at ever he was creatit!
But I didna just think he was so real-like as a shepherd with his sheep, or that he would have ta'en that trouble for one," Geordie replied, with a dreamy look in his eyes; but he did not say more.
But, to be sure, how can we do eneugh for his Honour, when we and ours have lived on his ground this twa hundred years; and when he keepit my puir Jamie at school and college, and even at the Ha'-house, till he gaed to a better place; and when he saved me frae being ta'en to Perth as a witch Lord forgi'e them that would touch sic a puir silly auld body! and has maintained puir Davie at heck and manger maist feck o' his life?
"I have known a lady, John, who was delivered of a blackamoor child, merely from the circumstance of having got a start by the sudden entrance of her negro servant, and not being able to forget him for several hours." "It may be, sir; but I ken this an' I had been the laird, I wadna hae ta'en that story in." "So, then, John, you positively think, from a casual likeness, that this boy is my son?"
For mysel', I canna say I ever likit him o'er weel; and since puir Maggie gaed awa', I hae ta'en little pleasure in the honor he has done oor village." "Maggie gone away! Where to?" "Nane can tell. She had a sair trial wi' yonder auld harridan her brother brought to bide wi' her." "I did not like the woman, Willie." "Like her? Wha wad like her but the blackhearted and the black-tongued?
By Allah's name I pray you write, when I am dead and gone, * Upon my tomb, This died of Love whose senses Love had ta'en: Then haply one shall pass that way who fire of Love hath felt, * And treading on a lover's heart with ruth and woe shall melt." When I ended my verses tears came again; but the poetry and the weeping only added fury to his fury, and he recited:
There is a sang about ane o' them marrying a daughter of the King of Man; it begins Blythe Bertram's ta'en him ower the faem, To wed a wife, and bring her hame I daur say Mr. Skreigh can sing us the ballant.
They had a braw sport in the presence last Friday, how ye suld have routed a young shopkeeper, horse and foot, ta'en his spolia ofima, and a' the specie he had about him, down to the very silver buttons of his cloak, and sent him to graze with Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon. Muckle honour redounded to your lordship thereby.
'I havenae been near it, said she. 'What for would I go near it, Charlie lad? The poor souls are gone to their account long syne; and I would just have wished they had ta'en their gear with them poor souls! This was scarcely any great encouragement for me to tell her of the Espirito Santo; yet I did so, and at the very first word she cried out in surprise.
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