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"I'll mend it at once." Now that I had that piece of business so luckily disposed of, I did not feel the least nervous about meeting grannie. I took the mail in my arms and entered the dining-room, chirping pleasantly: "Grannie, I'm such a good mail-boy. I have heaps of letters, and did not forget one of your commissions."
'A stroke. 'That's what comes o' playin' the fiddle. 'I never heard o' a stroke comin' frae a fiddle, grannie. It comes oot o' a clood whiles. 'Hm! said his grandmother, concealing her indignation at this freedom of speech, 'ye dinna believe in God's judgments! 'Nae upo' fiddles, returned Robert. Mr. Innes sat and said nothing, with difficulty concealing his amusement at this passage of arms.
The little cakeen was broken open and buttered, and, "Musha, 'tis fit for the Queen herself," said Larry, when he had taken his first bite. And Eileen said, "Indeed, ma'am, it's a grand cook you are entirely." "Sure, I'd need to be a grand cook with the grand company I have," Grannie answered politely, "and with the fine son I have in America to be sending me a fortune in every letter!
"See what he wants and let him get away to his work, or your grannie will be vexed to see him loitering about all the morning." "Miss Sybylla," he began, when we were left alone, I want to apologize to you. I had no right to plague you, but it all comes of the way I love you. A fellow gets jealous at the least little thing, you know."
I excused myself to my companion, and acceded to the request of several children to go on a flower- and gum-hunting expedition. We were a long time absent, and returning, the little ones scampered ahead and left me alone. Harold Beecham came to meet me, looking as pleasant as ever. "Am I keeping grannie and uncle waiting?" I inquired. "No. They have gone over an hour," he replied. "Gone!
"Then you must think a little longer," said his grandmother. "And now go and wash your hands." A TALK WITH Mr SHEPHERD. In a few minutes Willie came rushing back from his room, with his hands and face half wet and half dry. "Grannie! grannie!" he panted "what a stupid I am! How can a body be so stupid! Of course you mean a doctor's work!
Roger started up in dismay, but, beholding the apparition, laughed also. "Please, grannie," said the urchin, "mother's took bad, and want's ye." "Run and tell your mother I shall be with her directly," answered Marion; and the child departed. "You told me I might come again," pleaded Roger. "Better not. I didn't know what it would mean to you when I said it."
They kissed each other many times. Alison and Jim were married, and Grannie went to live with them.
"Your own grandson, too!" "Never another for Kate, anyway," wept Grannie. "Aw boy veen, aw boy veen!" "Maybe he had another himself, who knows?" said Black Tom. "Out of sight out of mind, and these sailor lads have a rag on lots of bushes." Kate was helped to her room upstairs, Philip sat down in the kitchen, the news spread like a curragh fire, and the barroom was full in five minutes.
The troubles of the Flemings would soon be over should Davie prove to be a prop on which, in their old age, they might lean. "He is wonderfully taken up about the work, and the best way of doing it just now, and I only hope it may last," said Mrs Fleming, and then Katie said, "Oh, grannie!" so deprecatingly that they all laughed at her.
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