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The Twa Dogs (第2/5页)
, what sort o' life ps like you have; an' when the gentry's life i saw, what oor bodies liv'd ava. our laird gets in his racked rents, his coals, his kane, an' a' his stents: he rises when he likes himsel'; his flunkies a the bell; he ca's his coach; he ca's his horse; he draws a bonie silken purse, as lang's my tail, where, thro' the steeks, the yellow letter'd geordie keeks. frae morn to e'en, it's nought but toiling at baking, roasting, frying, boiling; an' tho' the gentry first are ste, yet ev'n the ha' folk fill their pe wi' sauce, ragouts, an' sic like trashtrie, that's little short o' dht wastrie. our whipper-in, wee, blasted wonner, poor, worthless elf, it eats a dinner, better than o-man his honour has in a' the lan': an' oor cot-folk pit their pain, i own it's past my prehension. luath trowth, caesar, whiles they're fash't eneugh: a cottar howkin in a sheugh, wi' dirty stanes biggin a dyke, baring a quarry, an' sic like; himsel', a wife, he thus sustains, a smytrie o' wee duddie weans, an' nought but his han'-daurk, to keep them right an' tight in tha' rape. an' when they meet wi' sair disasters, like loss o' health or want o' masters, ye maist wad think, a wee touch langer, an' they maun starve o' cauld an' hunger: but how it es, i never ke, they're maistly wonderfu' tented; an' buirdly chiels, an' clever hizzies, are bred in sic a way as this is. caesar but then to see how ye're , how huff'd, an' cuff'd, an' disrespeckit! lord man, entry care as little for delvers, ditchers, an' sic cattle; they gang as saucy by poor folk, as i wad by a stinkin brock. i've notic'd, on our laird's court-day,— an' mony a time my heart's been wae,— poor tenant bodies, st o'cash, ho