[I]n them days, you see the people used to be hanged outside o' the town, […] [I]n them days they did not attind to the comforts o' the people at all, but put them into a cart, all as one as a conthrairy pig goin' to the market, and stravaiged them through the town to the gallows, that was full half a mile beyant it; […]
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Innes, stravaiging the square and wynds in his apple-cart, jingled his weights in vain, unable to shake even moneyed children off their stools; […]
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That I should live to see the time when me only daughter stravages the roads and hides behind stones in the night with a soldier!
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In a way perhaps it's a pity, a good woman might have been the making of me, I might be sprawling in the sun now sucking my pipe and patting the bottoms of the third and fourth generation, looked up to and respected, wondering what there was for dinner, instead of stravaging the same old roads in all weathers, I was never much of a one for new ground.
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