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gentleman.—I'll get but little penny-fee, for his uncle, auld Nippie Milnwood, has as close a grip as the de'il himsel. But we'll aye get a bit bread, and a drap kale, and a fire-side, and theeking ower our heads, and that's a' we'll want for a season —Sae get up, mither, and sort your things to gang away, for, since sae it is that gang we maun, I wad like ill to wait till Mr Harrison and auld Gudyill cam to pu' us out by the lug and the horn."
