human
Well, said a member of the town council,
gpt
I think we may as well have a _pair_, and they might _breed_.
human
Ah, said he,
gpt
See, John, then, and make her ane.
human
Did I say that?
gpt
Yes.
human
Then if I said that, quoth the self-satisfied wit,
gpt
Tak' care, my lord, tak' care, cried the kind host most anxiously, holding the candles out of the door into the sunny street, along which the people were pouring churchwards;
human
Tak' care; there's twa steps.
gpt
Mr. Clerk, said his judicial associate in guilt, with the utmost coolness,
human
Eh, wumman, said one to the other,
gpt
Ou, ay, replied the other,
human
I can tell ye that. Ye see when a man and a wumman has been marrit for five-and-twenty years, that's a silver waddin; and when they've been marrit for fifty years, that's a gouden waddin; but when the man's deed, that's a jubilee!
gpt
Good-day, my freen', I see ye ken what it is to be foo'.
human
Style
gpt
It was very fortunate for your brother, Andrew, that it was not from _your_ style he fell, or he had broken his neck, instead of spraining his ankle!
human
Woman, what is thy name? what is thy age? and where is thy usual place of residence? To which interrogatories Miss Balfour only replied, by staring him broad in the face, when the questions were again repeated, with all the grimace and pedantry he was master of, which the lady, observing, said,
gpt
Dear me, Andrew, do ye no ken yer ain sister? To which the judge answered,
human
Woman, when I sit in court I administer justice; I know no one, neither father or mother, sister or brother!
gpt
I'm at 'A State o' Sin and Misery.' He then asked another what length he was, to which he replied,
human
I'm just at 'Effectual Calling.' They were both anxious, of course, to learn how far he was himself, and having asked him, he answered,
gpt
Past Redemption.
human
Now, my dear, you may tell your grandchildren, and tell them in their turn to tell their grandchildren, that you had once the honor of receiving a kiss from the Right Hon--the Earl of ----. The girl looked up in his face, and, with a strange mixture of simplicity and archness, remarked,
gpt
But ye took the penny for the milk, though!
human
Adam, where art thou? He made a most excellent discourse, and the congregation were much edified. In the evening Mr. Adam preached, and took for his text,
gpt
Lo, here am I!
human
On Credit
gpt
Ye villains! she cried,
human
And when will we pe account for't?
gpt
At the last day, ye blackguards!
human
Ta last tay! replied the Highlander;