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With such a history, such traditions, grievances, conditions, and hardships, it is not strange that the crofter should be ready to join an agitation that promised a remedy.
For he would have been quite content to go about in his shabby clothes and let folks think him nothing but a poor crofter to the end of his days. It was for the little girl's own sake that he felt compelled to reveal the great secret. It happened one day, early in August, when he had gone down to the pier to watch for her.
Two trips of the Mermaid the Craft only when her young owners were by themselves conveyed the entire party on board the Kelpie, whose crew, consisting of Rob MacLean and another crofter, were in readiness. 'We must manage not to go to the caves, Rob, said Marjorie as she passed. 'Aye, Miss Marjorie, she will not pe going to the caves to-day, said the Highlander grimly.
The crofter system has been an extremely bad one in many respects. There cannot be much interest in making improvements where the tenant must build the houses, fences, stables, etc., but has no guarantee that he will not be turned out of his holding or have his rent so increased as practically to compel him to leave the place.
Like the woman in the Gospel, Gordon gave to the Covenant all that he had. Had Robert Gordon been a Highlander instead of a Lowlander; had he been a Ross-shire crofter instead of a small laird in Wigtown, he would have been one of the foremost of the well-known 'men. His temperament and his experiences would have made him a prince among the ministers and the men of the far north.
West said, as they turned away from the house again in their walk, and set their faces toward the distant gate. "It wasn't true. His father was a crofter on a little island somewhere near Skye. I think it's called Dhrum. I never heard of it before; and he had to excuse my ignorance, because I'm Canadian!
's excitement was intense, and my attention was drawn from the ball by hearing him call out, "It's wonderful! it's perfectly true! I was thinking of a young boy, a son of a crofter, in whom I am deeply interested, and who is a trooper in the in London, which would account for the crowd of people round him in the street!"
He has a straight-forward, pleasant manner with him, and is altogether superior to an ordinary crofter. It would be a good match for Christian. Poor soul! She deserves a better lot than she enjoys at present." "What's his age, do you suppose?" "Forty-six. Quite a lad, for these parts!" "Things look all right, certainly," was my summing up.
His dream was a parochial Utopia where the Irish peasant, the Welsh farmer and the Scottish crofter should live in luxury, and when these were satisfied, the English operative should live in moderate comfort. The Little Englander, in his insensate altruism, dreamed of these three nations entirely independent of England, except in the trivial matter of financial support.
Captain Flett told me to get the slate and pencil from below, and as the crofter gave his orders for the articles required I wrote these down under the initial item, "Needles, 1d." When all the necessaries were brought together, they formed a goodly pile of merchandise in the boat.
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