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I am a woman an auld maid if you like but I am a Minto, and here I am braving the great ones of the earth to look after Patsy me that would a thousand times raither be at Ladykirk with Eelen Young and that silly Babby Latheron, weighing out the sugar and spices for the late conserves the bramble and the damsons and the elderberry wine."
"Where is he now?" The woman merely shook her head, and spoke a few rapid words to her husband. She then turned to Jean and placed a light hand upon her shoulder. "No mind white man now. Babby tired." Jean smiled as the woman pressed her gently back upon the soft furs, and then stooped to take off her shoes. The latter were torn, and her feet were sore.
"He has fed you, clothed you, educated you since you was a babby; nursed you, maybe, in sickness, and prayed for you, no doubt that God would make you a good, obedient and loving son." The boy's head drooped still lower. "And for all this," continued the captain, "you have repaid him by running away. Now, my lad, as you have made your bed you shall lie on it.
At length says he, 'I ha' learnt th' way now; it's two jiggits and a shake, two jiggits and a shake. I can get that babby asleep now mysel. "The man had nodded cross enough to us, and had gone to th' door, and stood there, whistling wi' his hands in his breeches-pockets, looking abroad. But at last he turns and says, quite sharp "'I say, missis, I'm to have no breakfast to-day, I s'pose.
Jean asked as she stood watching him ere his departure. "Mebbe. See bimeby." "Don't stay too long, Sam, for if you do we shall all starve. Kitty says that we have very little food left." The Indian smiled as he stooped and arranged his right snow-shoe. "Kitty no starve, Babby no starve," he replied. "Sam come bimeby. Plenty grub."
"Oh, I see," and Jean's eyes twinkled. "I know I cannot hunt, fish, or pack. But you will teach me, will you not?" "A-ha-ha. Injun teach babby bimeby. Sleep now." Jean did feel drowsy, and the bed was so soft and comfortable. For a while she watched the friendly Indians as they sat near the fire, and talked low to each other.
He was very bad, very bad indeed; and I was sitting up in bed, rocking him backwards and forwards this ways: I thought with myself, what a pity it was, the young lord should die, and he an only son and heir, and the estate to go out of the family the Lord knows where; and then the grief the father would be in: and then I thought how happy he would be if he had such a fine babby as you, dear; and you was a fine babby to be sure: and then I thought how happy it would be for you, if you was in the place of the little lord: and then it came into my head, just like a shot, where would be the harm to change you? for I thought the real lord would surely die; and then, what a gain it would be to all, if it was never known, and if the dead child was carried to the grave, since it must go, as only poor Ellinor O'Donoghoe's, and no more about it.
"My brother!" exclaimed the old woman, aghast. "La! miss, you must not talk in that way, it's quite wicked and heathenish! One must not marry one's brother!" "No!" said Fanny, tremblingly, and turning very pale, even by that light. "No! are you sure of that?" "It is the wickedest thing even to talk about, my dear young mistress; but you're like a babby unborn!" Fanny was silent for some moments.
I were loath to leave them there, as I thought, when they rose again, they'd feel so strange at first away fra' Manchester, and all old friends; but it could na be helped. Well, God watches o'er their graves there as well as here. That funeral cost a mint o' money, but Jennings and I wished to do th' thing decent. Then we'd the stout little babby to bring home.
"Where are you driving that cow to?" yelled Sam from the kitchen door, at sunrise the following morning. "Take her out of there! You're driving her into my yard, right over my cabbages." But Jim, the Norris' hired man, only grinned, and proceeding with his driving, yelled back: "Cow's yourn, Sam. Yer old man sent it a present to yer missus and the babby."
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