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'My Tib came with us when we came here. Ay, Tib! purr thy best! as he held his fingers over her, and she rubbed her smooth head against him. 'Can she leap? Baudrons leaps like a horse in the tilt-yard. 'Cannot she!
What better man will speer your price? or think ye that I've groats laid by to buy a puggy or a puss baudrons for my maiden lady?" "I'll work my fingers to the bone, mother; my brother Hugh will not see me want." "Eat bite or sup of his victuals, or mint a Carnegie's working to me again, Nelly, and never see my face more."
Peter left a few black feathers in Baudron's possession, and escaping, flew over to the table by the window, where he hopped about with the greatest coolness, muttering, "William the Conqueror, ten sixty-six" words which he had gathered from our history lessons in the school. Baudrons was after him in a moment. And now followed a terrible encounter.
Few mice or rats came in his way, but luck for Baudrons there was an abundance of fish, and the wild birds that Andrew brought home supplied him with many a stolen banquet.
Hob had sent him in, as the weather was too bad for him, and he and Anne crouched on opposite sides of the wide hearth as he dried and warmed himself, and cosseted the cat which Anne had tried to caress, but which showed a decided preference for the older friend. 'Our Baudrons at Greystone loves me better than that, said Anne. 'She will come to me sooner than even to Sister Scholastica!
"The captain says his ship's full o' mice." "Ah, mice! What for does he not get a cat?" "It's your own cat he was wanting to get," said Andrew. "My cat! my Baudrons! Troth, I dinna think I could part with Baudrons. I'm terrible fond of Baudrons. Was there not a cat in Stromness forbye mine?" Grace said this as she selected some of the largest trout and took them away to clean.
Grace was finally prevailed upon much to the satisfaction of the dominie to give up her cat; and it was arranged that I should take Baudrons out to the ship before school time on the following morning. I was preparing to leave with Jessie and Captain Gordon, when Mrs. Drever called me to her near the fire. "Come here, Halcro, laddie.
I looked in the direction it came from, and, behold! there stood the cat like a frightful apparition. He seemed four times his original size, and his eyes were like two gleaming fires. Even now I am not sure if it was the flesh-and-blood Baudrons or his ghost come to explain the mystery of his disappearance, and vent his displeasure at me for having taken him from his comfortable home.
"Why, we're just infested with them, and I must get either cats or poison for them, or I'll not say but we may be manned by mice instead of men before we get beyond Cape Wrath." "My mother has a cat," quietly remarked Andrew, "one of the few we have in Orkney. And though she does not deal in witchery, you might bring her to part with Baudrons.
What harm can the poor cat do them, I'd like to know? They think it's unlucky, I suppose. Well, if they will have it so, send a couple of them down the hold to capture the animal. We must just bear the mice if the cat cannot remain. Look smart, now, the boy's in a hurry to get to his school." Two men were then sent below to search for Baudrons, and I waited for their return.
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