We're a' here by grace and no by merit, save his, as ye a' ken better nor I can tell ye, for ye hae been Langer here nor me. |
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Lod, Lod, three cradles a' rockin' at the same time in yae hoose, it will be like a smiddyor a watchmaker's shop! |
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And are ye in the wont of drawing up wi' a' the gangrel bodies that ye find cowering in a sand-bunker upon the links? |
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O mickle yeuks the keckle doup,An' a' unsicker girns the graith, For wae and wae! |
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Life's sweet to us a', an' it's unco hard to leave our master's bedesman just to be sacrificed. |
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But after a' the Kirk was oor ain mither, and what for should the King misca' or upturn her? |
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I'll hae this sodger ance a week a' the times he's in Edinburgh, and you I winna see again. |
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It wad ill become me, efter a' he's dune for us, to steek the door in's face. |
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And mony, mony mair were coming and ganging, a' as busy in their vocation as if they had been alive. |
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He's slipped out as aisily as meself out of a horse-collar, and the face a' him as bould and as big as the hill o' hope! |
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I've been deaved aboot 'im a' the day, but I haena seen the sonsie rascal nor the braw collar the Laird Provost gied 'im. |
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They're a pair of deevils, worse nor any Red Indian, but for a' that they're sweatin' wi' fright. |
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For a' that, I've had thickheaded friends who've been grateful to me noo and then. |
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I hae seen ill weather half the simmer, an' a thrang corn-yard after an' a', an' that o' the best. |
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Gin they had a' fouchten as he pipit, there wad hae been anither tale to tell. |
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I wouldn't a' minded pepperin' Roselle's legs a trifle, if I'd had a barrel loaded, say, with birdshot. |
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I was often wae for him, puir man, an' I did a' I could for him in my ain sma' wey. |
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Ye dinna ken whether ye are to get the free scule o' Dumfries or no, after hinging on and teaching it a' the simmer? |
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He have took my little Zip along of his own chiller, and a' maneth to make a lady on her. |
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So I took to the kist, and out wi' the pickle notes in case they should be needed, and a' the bairns ran to saddle Dumple. |
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Dinna think though I hae been saft wi' you a' along, that I'll ay be like that. |
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But I wud lat you ca' me a' the ill names in the dictionar to get ye to heark to me! |
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Because, sae far as I see, she canna think that ye hae left a' for him. |
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May we a' be canty an' cosy, An' ilk hae a wife in his bosy. |
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The ill-deedy wratches, to blister a' my loof wi' the poker! |
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Nae muck le o' that, but a douce, good-humored lassie for a' that. |
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From the mistress downward, they're a' kittle cattle at the inn since I've left 'em. |
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I wadna be in her shoon for a' the money that ever was made in Lowwood. |
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They war' a' Camerons and M'Donalds, though they paraded sax hundred men! |
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I says to her only yesterday, if a' do that agen, I'll tell Miss Dorothy. |
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The boat train won by a' richt, and I manned to haud the points for ye. |
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I wouldna care if ye were to rive horse and beast and a' from me now. |
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Lauk a' mussy, bo', yeou goo to Sunday skewl, and don't know that! |
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I'd sooner by half, though I lose by it, see a man tear his clothes a' purpose to spile 'em before they come to me, than find him snivelling. |
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And Mr. staffer sent ye off in his car to see if she was a' right? |
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I'm goin' to jape a bit with our friend, a' la 'Molly' Fairburn. |
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And I'm sure, if a' was kenned, I have more to complain o' than she has. |
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To strike a lode and win a braw lass a' in the day, ye may say. |
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He had his papers a' reet, an' gla d I was to be rid o' the dam' thing, for I was beginnin' masel' to feel uneasy at it. |
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Like the fiddler o' Chirnside's breakfast, it's a' pennyworth's thegither. |
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His name is Burns, an Ayr man, and the gentry are a' makin' much of him. |
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I thought you were drowned in the water, or a' your banes broken. |
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Mind me to a' that ask for me, but blad me in naebody's teeth. |
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And of a' the beings ever I beheld in breeks, to think it should be you! |
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There's a knock that canna be mista'en, an' a' heard it last night. |
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Ye'd oughta see th' swad a' chil'ren I've got, an' all like that. |
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You could a' made a straight, a straight flush, or a flush out of it. |
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A Man's a Man for a' That,' could have planned to become a slave-driver suggests how closely the most genuine human sympathies are limited by habit and circumstances. |
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A' hed tae borrow the money through the lawyer, ye ken, an' it wes a fecht payin' it wi' interest. |
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Did A' no' tell ye, Captain blackie, sir-r, that ma luck was oot? |
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A' is the edge view, B' is the side view and C' is a cross-section. |
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