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Aunt Myra, who discouraged the practice of reading for girls as unfitting them for any sort of useful work, used to declare that the very sight of a book made Cannie deaf and blind and dumb. "You might as well be Laura what's-her-name and have done with it," she would tell her; "only I don't know where to look for a Dr.
I never saw much of her after she married your father and went up to live among the hills." She sighed softly: there was a short pause. Then, with a sudden change of tone, she continued: "And all this time you have never been shown your room. I can't think why they were so stupid. Who was it put you here, Cannie?" "It was a lady in a cap," replied Candace, hesitatingly. "A lady? cap?
"'Well, I can't say I do, says I; 'you don't belong to this part of the country. "'If we did, Cannie, said the spokesman, 'it isn't face to face, in the open day, we'd spake to you. "'An' what is it you have to say to me? I axed; for, to tell you the truth, I was beginnin' to get unaisy someway.
"Hoots-toots," said he, "ca' cannie, man ca' cannie! Bide a day or two. I'm nae warlock, to find a fortune for you in the bottom of a parritch-bowl; but just you give me a day or two, and say naething to naebody, and as sure as sure, I'll do the right by you." "Very well," said I, "enough said. If you want to help me, there's no doubt but I'll be glad of it, and none but I'll be grateful."
After that they stopped at a carpet and curtain place, where Cannie was much diverted at hearing the proprietor recommend tassels instead of plated rings on certain Holland shades, for the reason that "a tossel had more poetry about it somehow." Then, after a brief pause to order strawberries and fresh lettuce, the carriage was ordered to a milliner's.
The 'Cannie Soogah, you know, is the Irish for Jolly Pedlar, and a right jolly pedlar your worthy father was once in his days." "By the way, papa," said Mary, "talking of that what has become of the pleasant man that goes under that name or nickname the pedlar that calls here occasionally?" "I saw him in the market yesterday," replied her father, "and a fine, hale fellow he is of his years.
Breakfast had not been concluded, when the Cannie Soogah, who had already got his hansel, as he called his breakfast, in the kitchen, made his appearance at the parlor window, which was immediately thrown up. "God save all here," he exclaimed, "long life and good health to every one of you!
Here I am, the rantin' Cannie Soogah, as large as life; and upon my profits maybe a little larger if the truth was known." "Cannie," said the proctor, "dix me, but I'm glad to see you and how are you, man? and do you carry your bones safe or your head upon your shoulders at all, durin' these wild times?" "Troth, and you may well say they're wild times, Mr.
Now, Cannie, there are two things which may help you to do this, two thoughts which you can keep in mind; and I wish you would try to remember them when you feel a fit of fright or of stiffness coming on." "What are they?" "One is, that you are but one little insignificant atom among thousands. People are not thinking about you or noticing you very particularly.
They cannot blame us for the consequence, for we're forced to it." "There will be bad work, thin, I'm afeard, sir; and bloody work, I dread." "That's not our fault, Cannie, but the fault of those who will wilfully violate the law. However, let that pass, what's the news in the world?"
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