It was hard wood to work, but Willie bore a hand in planing the pieces, and was initiated into the mysteries of dovetailing and gluing.

Neither of them understood all he read, but both understood much, and Hector could explain some of the things that puzzled Willie.

Willie watered it a good deal out of the Prior's Well; but it was hard work, and did not seem to be of much use.

Willie was always thinking what uses he could put things to.

He did not like her giving Willie so much moneynot that he minded Willie having or spending the money, for he believed that the spending would keep the having from hurting him; but he feared lest through her gifts the purity of the boy's love for his grandmother might be injured, and the service which at first had looked only to her as its end might degenerate into a mere serving of her for the sake of her shillings.

He did not like her giving Willie so much moneynot that he minded Willie having or spending the money, for he believed that the spending would keep the having from hurting him; but he feared lest through her gifts the purity of the boy's love for his grandmother might be injured, and the service which at first had looked only to her as its end might degenerate into a mere serving of her for the sake of her shillings.

She was indignant at the notion of the least danger of spoiling Willie, but so anxious to prove there was none that she agreed to the test proposed by his fatherwhich was, to drop all money transactions between them for a few months, giving Willie no reason for the change.

She was indignant at the notion of the least danger of spoiling Willie, but so anxious to prove there was none that she agreed to the test proposed by his fatherwhich was, to drop all money transactions between them for a few months, giving Willie no reason for the change.

she said one day, at length, triumphantly, to Mr Macmichael; "what do you think of my Willie now?

Willie pushed it a little further, and then knew by the change in the gurgle below that the water was rising in the well; and it soon began to spout from the hole in the cover through which the sluice-handle came up.

" Willie raised the sluice a little.

So Willie pushed it back to where it had been last, and made a notch in the handle to know the right place again.

So the water from the Prior's Well went careering through Willie's bed-chamber, a story high.

When he wanted to fill his bath, he had only to stop the run with his hand, and it poured over the sides into it; so that Tibbie was to be henceforth relieved of a great labour, while Willie's eyes were to be delighted with the vision, and his ears with the sounds of the water scampering through his room.

One lovely evening in spring, when the sun had gone down and left the air soft, and balmy, and full of the scents which rise from the earth after a shower, and the odours of the buds which were swelling and bursting in all directions, Willie was standing looking out of his open window into the parson's garden, when Mr Shepherd saw him and called to him "Come down here, Willie," he said.

On the other hand, Burns was, beneath his disgust at Holy Fairs and Willies, sincerely reverential; much of Don Juan would have seemed to him "an atheist's laugh," anda more certain superiorityhe was absolutely frank.

It gives me the willies...

"Say," growled Hogan, Judge Bender's private attendant, who was the first to run the gantlet, "those Chinks are enough to give you the Willies!

The very sight of a boiled egg beside my plate at breakfast gives me the willies.

Well, you give me the willies, (moves around in irritation, troubled.

The word had gone out that they made stragglers work when caught there, and nothing could be more horrible in the eyes of these "Wandering Willies.

Why, the fellow is liable to go to pieces at any minute and let those Willies run in a score that will be an absolute disgrace.

The Harvard Willies have been piling up something every inning.

" And the latter said, "These can be nothing but jack-o-lanterns, or wandering Willies.

Things were in a fine state when a guy couldn't roll in with a bunch of willies without showing a card.