. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. It ncTer rains but it pours, 586. A Figure of Speech :—A Broad Scotchman. THE APPARITION. A TRUE STORY.* nnO keep without a reef in a gile of wind like that, Jock was theX only boatman on the Firth of Tay to do it! He had sail enou,i;h to blow him over Dundee emptied her ballast and come up again, with her sails allstanding—every sheet was belayed with a double turn. 1 give the sense rather than the sound of the foregoing speeches, forthe speakers were all Dundee ferry-boatmen, and broad Scotchmen,using the extra-wide dialect of
. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. It ncTer rains but it pours, 586. A Figure of Speech :—A Broad Scotchman. THE APPARITION. A TRUE STORY.* nnO keep without a reef in a gile of wind like that, Jock was theX only boatman on the Firth of Tay to do it! He had sail enou,i;h to blow him over Dundee emptied her ballast and come up again, with her sails allstanding—every sheet was belayed with a double turn. 1 give the sense rather than the sound of the foregoing speeches, forthe speakers were all Dundee ferry-boatmen, and broad Scotchmen,using the extra-wide dialect of Angusshire and Fife. At the othfr end of the low-r^nifed room, under a coarse white sheet,sprinkled with sprigs of rue and rosemary, dimly lighted by a smallcandle at the head and anotherat the feet, lay the object <if their com-mi^nts—a corpse of startling magnitude. In life, poor Jock was ofunusual stature, but stretching a little, perhaps, as is usual in death,and advantaged by the narrow limits of the room, the dimensionsseemed absolutely supernatural. During the warfare
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