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...........................................................5 9 XV – TO DOCTOR JOHN BROWN.................................................................... ...ill your loud chaps frae Kyle to Fruin, Frae Hell to Heeven, Tell the guid wark that baith are doin’ – Baith Begg an’ Niven. XII – THE SCOTSMAN’S RETU... ...II – THE SCOTSMAN’S RETURN FROM ABROAD In a letter from Mr. Thomson to Mr. Johnstone. In mony a foreign pairt I’ve been, An’ mony an unco ferlie seen,... ...n mony a foreign pairt I’ve been, An’ mony an unco ferlie seen, Since, Mr. Johnstone, you and I Last walkit upon Cocklerye. Wi’ gleg, observant een, I... ...bonny U.P. kirks! But maistly thee, the bluid o’ Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to John o’ Grots, The king o’ drinks, as I conceive it, Talisker, Isla, or Gle... ...nae bear, An’ that’s my conscience. Whan day (an’ a’ excuse) has gane, An’ wark is dune, and duty’s plain, An’ to my charmer a’ my lane I creep apairt... ...ornin’, wud’s the wind, Yokes on his master. 60 Underwoods XV – TO DOCTOR JOHN BROWN (Whan the dear doctor, dear to a’, Was still amang us here belaw...

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...hought to have me cleverly. Come in; I’ll furnish them a reception. There, John, fasten the chain. Give Skulker some water, Jenny. T o beard a magistr... ...wod hev’ ye to look out, Miss—yah muh be t’ next. Thank Hivin for all! All warks togither for gooid to them as is chozzen, and piked out fro’ th’ rubb... ...izes. He’s noan feared o’ t’ bench o’ judges, norther Paul, nur Peter, nur John, nur Matthew, nor noan on ‘em, not he! He fair likes—he langs to set h... ...n’t ye ha’ said soa, at onst? un’ then, I mud ha’ telled ye, baht all this wark, that that’s just one ye cannut see—he allas keeps it locked, un’ nob’...

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...y Mr. Robert Carey, in his Vaticination on the Death of the celebrated Dr. John Donne: Now thou art gone, and thy strict laws will be T oo hard for li... ...but ye ken we maun hae turnips for the lang sheep, billie, and muckle hard wark to get them, baith wi’ the pleugh and the howe; and that wad sort ill ... ...r tell! “The Brown Man of the Moor, that stays Beneath the heather-bell.” —JOHN LEYDEN T he object which alarmed the young farmer in the middle of his... ...that it’s ony concern of mine in particular,—but I heard the priest of St. John’s, and our minister, bargaining about it at the Winter fair, and troth... ...glehope and the Shaws.—Honest man” (raising his voice), “ye make good firm wark there?” The being whom he addressed raised his eyes with a ghastly sta... ...claimed, “And what for no do as our fathers did lang syne?—Put hand to the wark, lads. Let us cut up bushes and briers, pile them before the door and ... ... then we’ll hae it out o’ his heart’s blood. But let us gang reasonably to wark and keep our tryst, and I’se warrant we get back Grace, and the kye an... ...’ Grace Armstrong has settled it brawly.” “But the stocking, Hobbie’” said John Elliot; “we’re utterly ruined. Harry and I hae been to gather what was... ...e wi’ ye?” “My naig is tired,” said Hobbie. “Ye may take mine, then,” said John. “But I am a wee thing wearied mysell.” “You wearied?” said Harry; “sh...

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...ng James, the other by the Regent, Duke Murdoch of Albany, and his brother John, Earl of Buchan, now about to head a Scottish force, among whom Patric... ...eplied Halbert (and a lance meant at least three men). ‘It wad be a fule’s wark to withstand them. Best bide fast in the covert, for our horses are sa... ...rbour for travellers, and a for- tified castle. At this period, the Prior, John de Akecliff, or Oakcliff, was an excellent man, a great friend of Sir ... ...lty of the Lady of Frendraught, and how ‘Morning sun ne’er shone upon Lord John and Rothiemay. Large tears were dropping from under the hand with he v... ...rm in Sir James’s, who turned for a moment to say, ‘T ake care of the lad, John; he is a young kinsman of mine.’ ‘Kinsman!’ thought Malcolm; ‘do all w... ... to him- self; and, ashamed of the moment’s petulance, dismounted, and, as John said, ‘This is the way to our noon meat,’ he let himself be conducted ... ...ord had passed. The marriage was a business contract between the houses of Wark and Raby, and a grand speculation for Sir Richard Nevil, that was all;...

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...nged circumstances, did the nobler qualities of such naval magnates as Don John of Austria, Doria, Van Tromp, Jean Bart, the long line of British Admi... ...rthwith introduced. His portrait I essay, but shall never hit it. This was John Claggart, the Mas- ter-at-arms. But that sea-title may to landsmen see... ... most part, sitting together on deck, their heads propped against the bul- warks. But it was only a partial and anonymous account that Billy gave, the... ...st month a deplorable occur- rence took place on board H.M.S. Indomitable. John Claggart, the ship’s Master-at-arms, discovering that some sort of plo... ... if refutation were needed, that peevish saying attributed to the late Dr. Johnson, that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. “The criminal p... ...illy Budd in human record to attest what manner of men respec- tively were John Claggart and Billy Budd. Chapter 30 E verything is for a term remarkab...

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...ent of a zealous Jacobite in his favour, was received as conclusive by Dr. Johnson and other persons who might pretend to impartiality. Dr. Cameron ha... ... on doubting with Dirleton, and resolving those doubts with Stewart, [‘Sir John Nisbett of Dirleton’s Doubts and Questions upon the Law, Especially of... ...s we frequent, and as oats are sometimes as speedily converted into ale as John Barleycorn himself, I shall keep a look-out after Master Sam. Stupid f... ...her Joshua is mitigated in his opinions, and correspondeth with our friend John Scot of Amwell, who hath himself con- structed verses well approved of... ...lied a blank with a low whistle)—’but I didna ken—my maister makes an unco wark if a woman comes here.’ I passed into my own room, not ill-pleased tha... ... country of the legal interference of the other; remem- ber, that even Sir John Fielding said to my father that he could never trace a rogue beyond th... ...us? Na, na. Stable the steed, and pit your wife to bed, when there’s night wark to do.’ ‘Aweel, aweel, Willie hinnie, ye ken best; but oh, take an unc... ... what I ken) to put down a’ the Whigs and Covenanters in the country. Wild wark they made of it; for the Whigs were as dour as the Cavaliers were fier... ...come wi’ the rent on a day preceese, or else Steenie behoved to flit. Sair wark he had to get the siller; but he was weel-freended, and at last he got...

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... as in any part of his creed. A grave and elderly person, according to old John MacKinlay’s account, while travelling in the wilder parts of Galloway,... ...e consigned over at the close of the story to domestic happiness.—So ended John MacKinlay’s legend. The author of Waverley had imagined a possibility ... ...a granddaughter survived her whom I remember to have seen. That is, as Dr. Johnson had a shadowy recollection of Queen Anne, as a stately lady in blac... ...aiting an an- 32 Guy Mannering swer she began to sing. T refoil, vervain, John’s-wort, dill, Hinders witches of their will; Weel is them, that weel m... ...ing wi’ quarrelsome fowk. And there’s Dunbog has warned the Red Rotten and John Young aff his grunds—black be his cast! [Fate] he’s nae gentleman, nor... ... stranger, “what is all this to him?” “Ou, sir, the bairn aye held an unca wark wi’ the Supervi- sor; and it was generally thought he went on board th... ...t I dinna do for ordinary, Mr. Glossin—But little did I think what skating wark he was gaun about—to shoot Mr. Charles, the innocent lamb!” Mr. Glossi... ...Deacon,” answered the landlady and yet I wonder our gentry leave their ain wark to the like o’ him. — But as lang as silver’s current, Deacon, folk ma... ... exclaimed, “Available!—it’s as tight as a glove—naebody could make better wark than Glossin, when he didna let down a steek on purpose.—But (his coun...

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...e, and humbled by the con- sciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed. The said Eliza, John, and Georgiana were now clus... ...oon. The breakfast-room door opened. “Boh! Madam Mope!” cried the voice of John Reed; then he paused: he found the room apparently empty. “Where the d... ... and I wished fer- vently he might not discover my hiding-place: nor would John Reed have found it out himself; he was not quick either of vision or c... ...ir, he intimated by a gesture that I was to approach and stand before him. John Reed was a schoolboy of fourteen years old; four years older than I, f... ...m an opinion so harsh, and in- clined rather to the more refined idea that John’s sallowness was owing to over-application and, perhaps, to pining aft... ...lest,” as she said, “I should mucky it.” “Ye’ve not been used to sarvant’s wark, I see by your hands,” she remarked. “Happen ye’ve been a dressmaker?”...

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... then, no spearman in the hall Will sooner swear, or stab, or brawl. Friar John of Tillmouth were the man: A blithesome brother at the can, A welcome ... ... To teach Dame Alison her creed. Old Bughtrig found him with his wife; And John, an enemy to strife, Sans frock and hood, fled for his life. The jealo... ...the word. “Kind uncle, woe were we each one, If harm should hap to brother John. He is a man of mirthful speech, Can many a game and gambol teach; Ful... ...ed revenge of Bughtrig rude, May end in worse than loss of hood. Let Friar John, in safety, still In chimney-corner snore his fill, Roast hissing crab... ...t of the stream or lake. This were a guide o’er moor and dale But when our John hath quaffed his ale, As little as the wind that blows, And warms itse... ... the good saint who owned the cell; Then did the Alne attention claim, And Warkworth, proud of Percy’s name; And next, they crossed themselves, to hea... ...low o’er the midnight wave it swung, Northumbrian rocks in answer rung; To Warkworth cell the echoes rolled, His beads the wakeful hermit told, The Ba... ...every varying day? And, first, they heard King James had won Etall, and Wark, and Ford; and then That Norham Castle strong was ta’en. At that so...

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...with the brawls of out- landish clansmen and retainers. Down in the palace John Knox reproved his queen in the accents of modern democ- racy. In the t... ...s own image, the indefati- 15 Robert Louis Stevenson gable, undissuadable John Knox. He sleeps within call of the church that so often echoed to his ... ... green. In a tomb higher up, which must then have been but newly finished, John Knox, according to the same infor- mant, had taken refuge in a turmoil... ...t is dubbed in one of its own inscriptions – an inscription over which Dr. Johnson passed a critical eye – is in many ways sacred to the memory of the... ... and the long wall of Salisbury Crags: and thence, by knoll and rocky bul- wark and precipitous slope, the eye rises to the top of Arthur’s Seat, a hi...

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...out his prisoner, and they were introduced to each other by the celebrated John Roy Stewart, who acquainted Colonel Whitefoord with the quality of his... ...he right culprit. [The Keiths of Craig, in Kincardineshire, descended from John Keith, fourth son of William, second Earl Marischal, who got from his ... ...of that family. Colonel Robert Keith of Craig (the seventh in descent from John) by his wife, Agnes, daughter of Robert Murray of Murrayshall, of the ... ...er- tainment. Near Sir W. Scott sat the Earl of Fife, Lord Meadowbank, Sir John Hope of Pinkie, Bart., Admiral Adam, Baron Clerk Rattray, Gilbert Inne... ...ut feelings of the deepest respect and gratitude. I allude to the late Mr. John Kemble. (Great applause.) T o him I applied, and with the repetition o... ...purse. There never was a trade so unhealthy yet but men would fight to get wark at it for twa pennies a day aboon the com- mon wage. But the bairns we... ...’en kiven it away, whilk is a creat sin to forthink a 83 Sir Walter Scott wark o’ charity, and also is unlucky, and moreover is not the thought of a ...

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...bullet in my thigh, and then cut it out with my own jack-knife. Old Indian John knows the time well. I met him with a party of the Dela- wares, on the... ...elf, he again faced the party, and added: “If you see anything of In- dian John, about the foot of the lake, you had better take him with you, and let... ... savages how to hold his tongue— trust to me, lad; and remember old Indian John.” “ And, Natty,” said the youth eagerly , still holding the black by t... ...or an old man’s Christmas—never mind the venison, boy, and remember Indian John; his yarbs are better than all the foreign ‘intments. Here, Judge,” ho... ... her in hand; but anybody could see that he lied—he was a great liar, that John—what’s that, a buck?” Richard abandoned the horses, and ran to the spo... ...ding his com- rade on the ground, and the veteran standing on his own bul- wark, giving forth the cry of victory! The muzzle of the long rifle was tur...

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...as the three-year-old boy elicited a squall from the eighteen-months one. ‘Johnnie! Johnnie! what gars ye tak’ away wee Andie’s claw? Here, my mannie.... ...he exclaimed, tossing the baby boy up in his arms, and then on the cry of ‘Johnnie too!’ ‘Me too!’ performing the same feat with the other two, the la... ...rms, while he re- tained his beloved crab’s claw. ‘Jeanie, would you carry Johnnie, he’s not sure-footed, over the stair? Annaple, take Lorn’s hand ov... ...e Lorn, as he was called, his Christian name being James; then Annaple and Johnnie hand-in-hand, Mary carrying Andrew, and lastly old Ankaret, hobblin... ...ame riding back, pushing up hastily. ‘Sir! father!’ he cried, ‘there’s wud wark ahead, there’s a flight of unco big birds on before, and Lady Jean’s h... ...for miles, for all kinds of sport. ‘All this enclosed! Yet they make sic a wark about their bustards, as they ca’ them,’ muttered Jean. The forester h... ...a beautiful crucifix of ivory and ebony, with im- ages of Our Lady and St. John on either side, and another figure of St. Helena, cross in hand, presi... ... our own bonnie laverock, soar- ing away to the sky, without making such a wark of tuning his pipes, and never thinking himself too dainty and tender ...

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... little fishes, you would make them speak like great wales.” —Goldsmith to Johnson. “In the afternoon we saw what was supposed to be a rock, but it wa... ...of blood are thrown out of the heart at a stroke, with immense velocity.” —John Hunter’ s Account of the Dissection of a Whale. (A small sized one.) “... ...big bed that. Why, afore we give it up, Sal used to put our Sam and little Johnny in the foot of it. But I got a dreaming and sprawling about one nigh... ...ike the following, but I do not pretend to quote:— Sacred to the Memory of John Talbot, Who, at the age of eighteen, was lost overboard, Near the Isle... ...to torture us naturalists.” Thus speak of the whale, the great Cuvier, and John Hunter, and Lesson, those lights of zoology and anatomy. Neverthe- les... ...s seas that burstingly broke over its bows, stood in a line along the bul- warks in the waist; and the better to guard against the leaping waves, each... ...ng Fedallah. But Fedallah, putting a finger on his lip, slid over the bul- warks to take the boat’s steering oar, and Ahab, swinging the cutting-tackl... ...d. “Who’s there?” “Old Thunder!” said Ahab, groping his way along the bul- warks to his pivot-hole; but suddenly finding his path made plain to him by...

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...r little fishes, you would make them speak like great whales.” Goldsmith to Johnson. “In the afternoon we saw what was supposed to be a rock, but it wa... ... of blood are thrown out of the heart at a stroke, with immense velocity.” John Hunter’s account of the dissection of a whale. (A small sized one.) “T... ...big bed that. Why, afore we give it up, Sal used to put our Sam and little Johnny in the foot of it. But I got a dreaming and sprawling about one nigh... ...ike the following, but I do not pretend to quote: — SACRED TotheMemory O F JOHN TALBOT, Who, at the age of eighteen, was lost overboard, Near the Isle... ...n very carefully, came out of the wigwam, and leaning stiffly over the bul warks, took a good long look at Queequeg. “How long hath he been a member?”... ...to torture us naturalists.” Thus speak of the whale, the great Cuvier, and John Hunter, and Lesson, those lights of zoology and anatomy. Nevertheless,... ...izon when a storm is coming up, Ahab, after rapidly glancing over the bul warks, and then darting his eyes among the crew, started from his stand poi...

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...an’ shure eneueh it was the end of him. We were seeven days oot frae the Clyde – a sair wark we had had – gaun north wi’ seeds an’ braws an’ things fo... ...’ books wi’ him – mair than had ever been seen before in a’ that presbytery; and a sair wark the carrier had wi’ them, for they were a’ like to have s... ...door cheeks and chairge her wi’ a’ that was ken’t again her, frae the sodger’s bairn to John Tamson’s twa kye. She was nae great speaker; folk usually... ... garden hedge, and ran, wi’ skelloch upon skelloch, for the clachan. That same mornin’, John Christie saw the Black Man pass the Muckle Cairn as it wa...

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...this pauper testify to his having received the gospel of humility? A gentle- man met him in the workhouse, and said (which I myself really thought goo... ...des; he was washing decks barefoot, with the breast of his red shirt open to the blast, though it was sharper than the knife in his leathern girdle; h... ...e another case. Take your own case. Y ou are going off by railway, from any T erminus. Y ou have twenty minutes for dinner, before you go. You want yo... ...shy metropolitan neighbourhoods and small shops, is the fancy of a humble artist, as exemplified in two portraits representing Mr. Thomas Sayers, of G... ...of a most exemplary couple whose only improvidence appears to have been, that they spent the last of their little All on soap. They are a man and woma... ...r little All on soap. They are a man and woman, spotless to be- hold—John Anderson, with the frost on his short smock- frock instead of his ‘pow,’ att...

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... . . . . . . . . 1329 49 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1374 50 The Acts of the Apostles . . .... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1563 68 The First Epistle of St. John the Apostle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1567 69 Th... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1567 69 The Second Epistle of St. John the Apostle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1572 70 The ... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1572 70 The Third Epistle of St. John the Apostle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1573 71 Th... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1574 72 The Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1576 iv... ...be as heath in the wilderness. 7 For because thou hast trusted in thy bul- warks, and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be taken: and Chamos shall go ...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1151 43 John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1386 62 1 John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1390 63 2 John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1395 64 3 John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bul- warks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued. Chap... ... the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene. Chapter 3 In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, 2 And saying, Repe...

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...l weight? Interfering with institutions, ruining reputation, blasting bul- warks, patronizing poachers, vituperating venerated—’ ‘Quite true,’ cried A... ... measure, for down came the cloud, blotting all out like the Castle of St. John, and by the time I came home, it was pitch dark and 183 Yo n g e rain...

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...morning of the battle of Preston, 1745, made their memorable attack on Sir John Cope’s army, a battery of four field-pieces was stormed and carried by... ...inst every Whig, Presbyterian, and fanatic in England and Scot- land, from John-o’-Groat’s to the Land’s End, and with diffi- culty got him to horse. ... ...o, smoked salmon, marma- lade, and all other delicacies which induced even Johnson him- self to extol the luxury of a Scotch breakfast above that of a... ...c poets, to be sure, and the Epithalamium of Georgius Buchanan, and Arthur Johnston’s Psalms, of a Sunday; and the Deliciæ Poetarum Scotorum, and Sir ... ...quoich; and the Highland- ers call him Vich Ian V ohr, that is, the son of John the Great; and we upon the braes here call him by both names indiffer-... ... and ex- pense, in respect my horse and mysell will lose to-morrow’s day’s-wark, besides the afternoon preaching.’ Edward, out of patience, hemmed in ...

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...voice said, less loud but very plain: “Strike on the gunwale. Strike hard, John!” and sud- denly a blue light blazed out, illuminating with a livid fl... ....” “Do I speak like a blamed Dutchman? Pull a stroke, boys—oars! Tend bow, John.” 29 Joseph Conrad The boat came alongside with a gentle knock, and a... ... fallen out of the universe. Lingard heard him say: “Catch hold of my leg, John.” There were hollow sounds in the boat; a voice growled, “All right.” ... ... boat clear of the ship. Drop clear. Do damage if you don’t.” “Slack away, John!” said Carter in a resigned tone to the elderly seaman in the bow. “Sl... ...ice was pitched higher: “You are playing a dangerous game, I warn you. Sir John, as it happens, is a personal friend of mine. He will send a cruiser—”... ...upants to distinguish plainly the heads of three people above the low bul- wark of the Emma. Immada let her paddle trail sud- denly in the water, with...

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... the leddies’ wull to cocker up till not a lass of ‘em will do a stroke of wark, nor gie a ceevil answer to her elders.’ Mysie, with a bundle of damas... ...o that it was not easy to believe in Sam, a captain in the navy. Harry and John farming in Canada, David working as a clergy- man in the Black Country...

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...try kens the place, they ken the time forbye. Do ye see me coming, Davie? Thanks to Johnnie Cope and other red-coat gomerals, I should ken this countr... ...wixt shame and drollery. “Neither you nor me, quo’ he, neither you nor me. Wow, na, Johnnie man! neither you nor me.” And then of a sudden he stood st... ... kind of a process is this that I am fallen under? To be apprehended by some ragged John-Hielandman on August 30th, carried to a rickle of old stones ... ...ys grandfaither; “we maun see clearer first,” says he, “or this may be a dear day’s wark to the baith of us.” “Hout!” says Sandie, “this is the Lord’s...

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...grenadiers from 1804 to 1813, when he saw some mixed fighting; and in 1834 John Chinn of the same fam- ily—we will call him John Chinn the First—came ... ... the Mutiny. He spent his working life within a hundred and fifty miles of John Chinn’s grave, and rose to the command of a regiment of small, wild hi... ...giment of small, wild hill-men, most of whom had known his father. His son John was born in the small thatched-roofed, mud-walled cantonment, which is... ...small-boned, dark, and si- lent, and the stupidest of them are good shots. John Chinn the Second was rather clever, but as the eldest son he entered t... ...to be almost as open to civilisation as the tigers of his own jungles. But John Chinn the First, father of Lionel, grandfather of our John, went into ... ...n the Breslau eight seasons, an’ I believe there’s no fault to find wi’ my wark. But if ye haud to this’—I waggled the advertisement at ‘em -’this tha... ...an’ chuckled—the pairfect eemage o’ senile demen- tia. Ye ken his eyebrows wark up an’ down like a gorilla’s. “‘Ye’re under sealed orders,’ said he, t... ...owin’ what I did to her discredit, I couldna blame young Bannister. It was warkin’ up to a North 196 Rudyard Kipling Atlantic winter gale, snow an’ s... ...cial cracks in the tail-shaft. Calder knows that much,’ I said. “‘It’s ill wark retreevin’ steamers this weather,’ said Bell. His beard and whiskers w...

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...shouldna hae something now and then to synd my mouth wi’ after sic drouthy wark? Eh?” “It would be very unreasonable indeed, my lord,” replied the Mar... ...l the grooms”; and sturdily did Caleb roar till the old tower rang again: “John— William—Saunders! The lads are gane out, or sleeping,” he observed, a... ... “if ye dinna regard your ain credit, think on mine; we’ll hae hard eneugh wark to make a decent night o’t, wi’ a’ the lees I can tell.” “Well, well, ... ... host and entertainer. “T ake the goods the gods provide you, as the great John Dryden says; or stay—here, my friend, lend me that horse; I see you ha... ...roprietor of the lands and barony of Wolf ’s Crag, on othe ne part, and to John Whitefish and others, feuars in the town of Wolf’s Hope, within the ba... ...” quoted Caleb to himself; “and I had ance the ill hap to say he was but a Johnny New-come in our town, and the carle bore the family an ill- will eve... ...ear: “If ony thing about Peter Puncheon’s place could be airted their way, John 141 Sir Walter Scott [Gibbie] Girder wad mak it better to the Master ... ...bell-siller, though the bell’s broken, nae doubt—and the kist—and my day’s wark—and my bit fee— and some brandy and yill to the dirgie, I am no thinki... ...ishing outside and inside—a’ the fine graith, pictures, tapestries, needle-wark, hangings, and other decorements—a’ in a bleeze, as if they were nae m...

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... older than myself. He had been on a whaling voyage with his father in the John Donaldson, and was always talking to me of his adventures in the South... ...ring the day. July 9th. Fine weather. All hands employed in repairing bul- warks. Peters had again a long conversation with Augustus, and spoke more p... ... encountered. The only opposition we experienced at all was from the cook, John Hunt, and Richard Parker; but they made but a feeble and irresolute de... ...that the same ground was traced over, with equal care, in 1822, by Captain Johnson, of the American schooner Henry, and by Captain Morrell in the Amer... ... of the work to the three men whom we intended to leave behind. These were John Carson, Alfred Harris, and ___ Peterson (all natives of London, I beli...

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...ent that it had for me: and that from a man cleaning a byre! Y ou see what John Knox and his schools have done. SA TURDAY . – This has been a charming... ...was out of the humour. Only, I am beginning to see some- thing great about John Knox and Queen Mary: I like them both so much, that I feel as if I cou... ... and a half: she speaks six languages. She and her sister (aet. 8) and May Johnstone (aet. 8) are the delight of my life. Last night I saw them all da... ...– that is the two Russian ladies, Robinet the French painter, Mr. and Mrs. Johnstone, two governesses, and fit- ful kids joining us at intervals – pla... ...L MENTONE, TUESDAY, 13TH JANUARY 1874. … I lost a Philipine to little Mary Johnstone last night; so to-day I sent her a rubbishing doll’s toilet, and ... ...ord of sculduddery ahint the door, nor, in shoart, wi’ ony hole-and-corner wark, what I would call. I’m pairfec’ly willin’ to meet in wi’ Proavidence,...

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... a prince—of what ac- count are princes now! —nor that ye have become a bul- wark to that which standeth, that it may stand more firmly. Not that your... ...strong of bone and light of foot,— —Joyous in fight and feast, no sulker, no John o’ Dreams, ready for the hardest task as for the feast, healthy and ...

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...nel was out of harm’s way. “Deed, aye, ma’am, he’s weel awa’. He has sic a wark wi’ thae laddies an’ their bit bairn o’ a mither, I’ll no say he’d bee... ... beginning. We must do what we can. Or stay, it is the last chapter of St. John. I could hardly fail in that. Sit near me, and give me the word if I d... ... pro- found satisfaction. “He was aye a camsteary child when there was any wark on hand.” Colin could not help laughing, and when once this had been e...