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"Oh, it's good to be alive!" said Mac. But I dinna ken whether it was the poetry of the day or the great biscuit he had just spread wi' jam that moved him! At any rate there was no doot at a' as to what moved a great wasp that flew in through the window just then. It wanted that jam biscuit, and Mac dropped it. But that enraged the wasp, and it stung Mac on the little finger. He yelled.
The little man put the Cup back on its pedestal with hurried hands. The handkerchief dropped unconsidered to the floor; he turned and sprang furiously at the boy, who stood against the wall, still smiling; and, seizing him by the collar of his coat, shook him to and fro with fiery energy. "So ye're hopin', prayin', nae doot, that James Moore curse him! will win ma Cup awa' from me, yer ain dad.
Then followed dead, solemn silence. Robbie was content to wait till the effect of the speech should be dissipated in smaller talk. Then he gravely said: "The kirk wad be a gran' thing, nae doot, an' they wad a' dootless" with a suspicious glance toward Bill "rejoice in its erection.
"Perhaps some one will say something." Then Mr. Innes, forced to a change of position by the physical discomfort caused by his wife's prodding, rose and said, "I dinna see the need o' any change. Mr. Dunbar is no a great preacher, but Ah doot he does his best. And the bairns all like him." Then the congregation had a thrill. In the back seat rose Harry Hobbs.
"She was aye a richt-thinkin' woman, Rachel, there's nae mistake o' that; a' wonder hoo her son is gettin' on wi' that fairm he's takin'; a' doot it's rack-rented." It was an honest, satisfying conversation, and reminded one of the parish of Drumtochty, being both quoad sacra and quoad civilia.
With the thought John opened his eyes, and David nodded and smiled back to him. How alert and gladly he roused himself! How cheerily he said, "Why, Davie, I hae been sleeping, I doot. Hech, but it is gude to see you, lad." "Please God, uncle, it shall always be gude to see me. Can you give me some advice to-night?" "I'll be mair than glad to do it."
'Forsake my religion? Never! cried Arthur indignantly. 'Saftly, saftly, said Yusuf; 'nae doot ye trow as I did that they are a' mere pagans and savage heathens, worshipping Baal and Ashtaroth, but I fand myself quite mista'en. They hae no idols, and girn at the blinded Papists as muckle as auld Deacon Shortcoats himsel'. 'I know that, threw in Arthur.
"Wull," he said at last, "na doot it'd be comfortin' to have a guid weef to care for ye; but they're an awfu' trooble, Ralph, women is, an awfu' trooble." "But you don't know, Uncle Billy; you ain't had no 'xperience." "No more am I like to have. I'm a gittin' too auld now. I could na get me a weef an' I wanted one.
"Here a message comin' through, boys," announces the Lance-Corporal. "They're in a sair hurry: I doot the officer will be there. Jeams, tak' it doon while Sandy reads it." Mr. James M'Micking seats himself upon a convenient log.
"They say," some other weaver would remark, "'at it was you Bell liked best." "I d'na kin," Sam'l would reply, "but there's nae doot the lassie was fell fond o' me. Ou, a mere passin' fancy's ye micht say." When an election-day comes round now, it takes me back to the time of 1832. I would be eight or ten year old at the time.
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