It was just like a laddie gettin' his paiks frae a maister and keepin' off the clouts wi' yae airm.
I've wandered among them since I was a laddie five 'ear auld, and used to gang oot wi' my faither to the herdin'.
If ye'll bide a wee, I'll send a laddie doun to bring him up.
At this moment there are half-a-dozen elderly people wandering about England who have been made children once more by Laddie and Dimples.
Because Laddie said there was a bowler so fast that his ball went frue a coat and killed a dog.
Laddie practising cricket," said the Lady, with the curious clairvoyance of motherhood.
Laddie is a rather restless soul, eager to be up and doing; but Dimples is absorbed in the present if there be something worth hearing to be heard.
If you want to see what Laddie can really do, put the small gloves on him and let him go for Daddy.
Laddie was resentful and defiant, but the two younger ones were obviously delighted.
Then he lit his pipe and it was passed also from one tiny hand to another, Laddie taking a hearty suck at it, which set him coughing, while Baby only touched the end of the amber with her little pink lips.
Laddie is the very soul of truth, quite painfully truthful in details, so that his quiet remark caused attention.
But Laddie feared Daddy would go, so he quickly got in a question.
Away went the line of figures, Daddy stooping with his rifle at the trail, Laddie and Dimples armed with axes and toy pistols, as tense and serious as any Redskins could be.
So the laddie came frae overseas, and made stir and trouble enough, I tell ye!
When your father was a laddie they often used to sit here, the two of them.
You should have had them ready, no' to keep the laddie coming back again," said her father sharply.
Mind next time then; and, Jean, tell Phemie to give the laddie his supper before he goes home.
The laddie must take to the sea, as most of the laddies in Portie did, and the lassie must get "bit and sup" here and there among the neighbours, till she should be able to do for herself as a servant in some house in the town.
For many a time the portion set aside for the dinner of two was only enough for one, and it cost Jean less pain to go without her share than to let the growing laddie be stinted of his needed food.
If it's ill news, the laddie should speak in and tell auld Miss Jean.
Why should a girl be a dunce all her days, when there was such a laddie at Ardshiel?
Robin, however, drank an entire bottle to his own head--that was three parts of a choppin, and a great deal too much for a laddie of his years.
The fable informs us, that the shepherd laddie lost his sheep, because he cried, "The wolf!
And really the tears ran down his face as if he had been a truant school-laddie that had been chastised by his master.
The laddie maun eat first,' said the girl who had called me a beggar.
The laddie gave one low scream, like somebody in a nightmare.
Miss Anne, I thought I would have fa'en at his feet, for what could I think, but that it was the unquiet spirit my puir laddie had seen.
I wanted to buy some bits of things the puir laddie needed, and so I couldna afford to tak the coach, but walked every step, and a weary road it was.
Miss Anne," said Esther, "my dear laddie Norman maun be saved, if I should gang away mysel.
Ne'er till now did fancy dream, My dearest laddie sae would grieve me.
A laddie like you; and my bonnie simple-hearted Katie.
Oh, what, tell me what, does your Highland laddie wear?
A weeladdie acted as guide, and from him we had our first real broad Scotch.
Who knows but the refusal of some rural beauty like her of the song to have the laddie that "ca'd the ploo" may have stirred our unfortunate youth to a change of occupation?
Ye'll be like a laddie at the mastheid up there; it'll be braw an' quate for the studyin'!
They sayLaddie got a prize once at some show in New York, but I don’t know for sure.
I hadn’t had Laddie long, but I was getting mighty fond of him when he disappeared.
Now, I guess Laddie got sort of homesick one day, and started out for Hutchinson’s.
I think whan the pawky laddie spoke o' my bit gathering wi' Robin Carrick, that it was in a sincerity; but thou's get a part.
Or that the day wad come, when fortune shall bring home, The laddie to my arms that is dear, dear to me.
Oh, where, tell me where, did your Highland laddie stay?
My laddie 's unpractised in guile, He 's free aye to daut and to kiss!
Oh, where, tell me where, is your Highland laddie gone?
My lane now I am i' the warld, And the daylight is grievous to me; The laddie that lo'ed me sae dearly Lies cauld in the deeps o' the sea.
The nurse on duty noticed that in the midst of his incoherence he seemed to be imploring someone to save Laddie from being shot.
To his surprise he foundLaddie crouching under the seat.
The skipper will be more favourably disposed towards Laddie after this.
Not possessing the luxury of a tail, Laddie wagged the whole of his hind quarters as much as to say: "Now, who says a dog cannot do his bit for his country?
Laddie waited until the last of the boarding party had gained the deck of the Douro, then, knowingly biding his time until the tramp had rolled away from the boat, he made a spring at the ladder and gained the deck.
Turning, he found Osborne still staggering from the effect of a blow, while Laddie was at the throat of a ruffianly Greek whose outstretched hand was grasping a glittering knife.
In places the three officers had to make their way in single file, Captain M'Bride leading, Webb coming next, and Osborne bringing up the rear, with Laddie sticking closely to his heels.
With a show of bravado and out of sheer cruelty, he had deliberately kicked Laddie in the ribs as he passed towards the gangway.
In a trice Laddie cleared the rail, plunged into the water, and swam vigorously towards the gig.
In ordinary circumstancesLaddie would be within a paw's length of his master.
It had been the captain's intention to keep Laddie in the background until Osborne had been given an opportunity of greeting his chum, and had been introduced to the army officer who had been instrumental in saving the dog's life.
Laddie was hanging round the cook's galley, so he won't know that we're going.
Although the kick was a heavy one, Laddie never uttered a sound.
Laddie bit hard--so hard that Osborne afterwards declared that he could hear the dog's teeth grinding upon the aggressor's shin-bone.
Together, Betty and Sandy had dreamed and planned the day when together they would view their piper laddie on parade.
I firmly believe, sir, that he was a predestinated villain from his cradle, for he showed symptoms of the most disgusting depravity more early than ever laddie did.
He was a laddie that was beloved by the whole town; and it was him that frae bairnhood was set down as the future husband of Esther Anderson, our minister's daughter.
I have mentioned to ye his two surviving bairns--the name of the laddie was Edward, and of the lassie, Esther.
The Wee Laddie is coming next week as Lord Garrick, who married that dancing-girl, Prissy Something, and started a furniture shop in Bond Street.
