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"I wisht," she observed presently, in a pensive tone, "that a Gout 'ud get into me gran'father's big toe; it 'ud sarve him right!" Pat was rubbing his hands and chuckling to himself over this remark when his wife entered, hot and weary after her peregrinations over the ruins. "Sixpence is all they're afther givin' me," she observed plaintively.
As we were separated from our boat, clothes, and all our belongings, Sprague fitted me out with some money, and I left Lanesport on the horse-car. At Squid Cove I looked anxiously to see if the car-driver would remember me, and I was glad to see a boy, about my own age, driving the old horse. "Gran'father's gone over to Bailey's Harbor," said he, "to see if the burglars have come back. Gee!
The two little figures darted out in the sunlight, and soon were to be seen bounding like deer up the steep golden-green slope that led to the "Rock." "What do ye think the little one there is afther sayin' to me?" asked Pat, shading his eyes with his hand as he peered after them. "'I wisht, says she, 'a Gout 'ud get into me gran'father's fut, says she; 'it 'ud sarve him right, she says.
That wad be jist yallow faced Willie ower again!* Na, na; things gang anither gait up there. My gran'father's a rale guid man, for a' 'at he has a wye o' luikin' at things 'at's mair efter the law nor the gospel."
''Cause mony's the time I hae stud oot there i' the street, hearkenin'. Dooble Sanny says 'at ye play jist as gin ye war my gran'father's fiddle hersel', turned into the bonniest cratur ever God made. 'How did you get such a terrible cut? She had removed the hair, and found that the injury was severe. The boy was silent. She glanced round in his face.
I was afther tellin' her the 'Story of the Spider an' the Gout, ye know." "Did she now?" cried Mrs. Clancy, sinking down on the stool which Roseen had vacated and clapping her hands together. "Well now, that bates all! But she's the 'cutest little thing I never seen her aiqual." "'I wisht, quoted Dan meditatively, 'a Gout 'ud get into me gran'father's big toe an' stay there, says she.
I told her all the particulars I got, thinkin' to satisfy her; but I believe it on'y done her harm, for the end come a week or ten days after. Seems strange, lookin' back at it, to think how simple our fam'ly's been broke up, an' my gran'father's old home gone into the hands o' strangers." "Never got a trace of your sister?" asked Thompson. "Not a trace.
But when t' gran'father's clock strake fower he said I mun away to my bed. He'd tak a turn round t' croft, an' then he'd set off wi' his budget to t' mistal to milk t' cows. But I didn't want to gan to bed. I'd bin sleepin' off an' on all t' neet, an' I weren't feelin' a lile bit tired. So when my father had set off I went to t' door an' looked out. My song! but 'twere a grand neet.
"Malcolm MacPhail, my lord." "MacPhail? I heard the name this very day! Let me see." "My gran'father's the blin' piper, my lord." "Yes, yes. Tell him I shall want him at the House. I left my own piper at Ceanglas."
"No, I'm going to Rogers's Island." "You be? Why, the excursion aint till tomorrow!" I said "What excursion?" before I thought. "Why, the Comp'ny. Aint you heard 'bout the Comp'ny? Gran'father's goin'. Everbody's goin'. Don't you live in Lanesport?" "No, I don't know anything about it. What is it, a picnic? How many people live there, on Rogers's Island?"
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