But they could came tae nae ither thought than that it was better to lose the bairn and gie him his chance to live and to grow up than to lose him by havin' him dee.

When I had done I went aboot amang the men, shaking hands with such as could gie me their hands, and saying a word or two to all of them.

"Cornel," said Jarvis solemnly, "and she'll bear me witness,the young gentleman never heard a word from meno, nor from either groom or gardener; I'll gie ye my word for that.

And then, let's gie a thought to just the matter of my performance.

"Dom the KEYSER!" says Peter Ledbetter, to gie us a start like.

If you meet a bonnie lassie, Gie her a kiss and let her gae; If you meet a dirty hussey, Fie, gae rub her o'er wi' strae!" From an old Spanish proverb it would seem that the rosemary has long been considered as in some way connected with love: "Who passeth by the rosemarie And careth not to take a spraye, For woman's love no care has he, Nor shall he though he live for aye.

"Jimmy, yo mun coom and gie a haand wi' t' coffin.

It's a strange thing, but it's aye the matters that gie the maist concern to the prophets of evil that gie me the greatest comfort when I get into an argument or a discussion aboot the war and its effects upon humanity.

It's a strange thing, but it's aye the matters that gie the maist concern to the prophets of evil that gie me the greatest comfort when I get into an argument or a discussion aboot the war and its effects upon humanity.

"Ou ay," he at length replied; "you're a' keen aneuch to get me anither wife, but no yin o' ye offers to gie me anither coo.

But gie me the country.

If I hadn't the law to gie me courage, why, instead o' my taking up him he might take up me!"

"If they'd gie me a crack I'd show them" And, sure enough, if anyone got up a game, Andy'd be the first to take off his coat.

I'll gie ye two days to think and to talk it ower wi' the wife.

"I'll gie you a dollar on account.

If I was sich a black as to be chief wi' ony woman, and she wanted to gie me a present, weel, she might gie me a pair o' gloves, but one glove, what use would one glove be to me?

"Indeed," retorted Lord Elphinstone, "I'll gie ye a guinea if ye'll tell that yersell, minister."

So he shouted out, "Minister, may a puir body like me noo gie a hoast?" I have two anecdotes of two peers, who might be said to come under the description of half-witted.

'Deed, and I've been asked, mair than once, tae gie the hoose a little peace.

The expressions he used to describe his own judicial preparations for the bench were very characteristic: "Ye see I first read a' the pleadings, and then, after lettin' them wamble in my wame wi' the toddy twa or three days, I gie my ain interlocutor."

They can manage well enough, for they're no slow to gie a kick or a cuff if the trapper bids them attend to their own affairs and leave him be.

I'll gie ye the lend of some of our Jamie's clubs, and it's no way at a' to the links," Secretly I had nae doot o' my bein' able to hit a little

I'll gie my life to it."

the tent has changed its voice; There's peace an' rest nae langer; For a' the real judges rise, They canna sit for anger: Smith opens out his cauld harangues On practice and on morals; An' aff the godly pour in thrangs, To gie the jars an' barrels A lift that day.

She had no place to gae that nicht, so I arranged wi' the dresser, a gude, motherly body, to gie her a lodging for the nicht, and next day I went mysel' to see her faithera respectable foreman he turned oot to be.