Letters Frae' Saunders McTavish to His Guid-brither in the KintraWilliam Collins, 1874 - 155 pagine |
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Letters frae' Saunders McTavish to his guid-brither in the kintra William Storrie (Hon.) Visualizzazione completa - 1874 |
Letters Frae' Saunders McTavish to His Guid-brither in the Kintra William Storrie Visualizzazione completa - 1874 |
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Pagina 31 - If there's a hole in a' your coats, I rede you tent it : A chield's amang you taking notes, And, faith, he'll prent it. If in your bounds ye chance to light Upon a fine, fat, fodgel wight, O...
Pagina 91 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Pagina 91 - Nae cotillion brent new frae France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels Put life and mettle in their heels: A winnock-bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge: He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a...
Pagina 154 - It has been truly said, that there is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Pagina 36 - What beats me, Maggie, is how you could insert a joke with an operation.
Pagina 145 - And aye the burden of his sang For ever used to be, ' I care for naebody, no not I, If naebody cares for me .'" If this from a man in jolly circumstances, what from a man under the reverse of these.