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No one else except Barbara had come down to prayers, so Jock's first inquiry was for Armine. "He is pretty well," said his mother; "but he is apt to be late. He gets overtired between his beloved parish work and his reading with Bobus." "He is lucky to get such a coach," said Jock. "Bob taught me more mathematics in a week than I had learnt in seven years before."
"Oh!" said Sir Tom. It was the simplest of exclamations, but it meant much. He was partially relieved that it was not gossip, but yet more gravely annoyed than if it had been. Lucy made haste to interpose. "I will tell you afterwards," she said. "If I made signs, as Jock said, it was only that I might tell it you, Tom, myself, when there was more time."
It brings Jock and Sandy and Tom and all the rest of the men in the works together. And there's one man, speaking for a' of them, to talk to the employer. "The men maun have more money, sir," he'll say, respectfully. "I cannot pay it," says the employer. "Then they'll go out on strike," says the union leader. And the employer will whine and complain!
But a real new suit, such as he had seen the schoolmaster's boy sometimes wearing! That would be a great experience! And so, lost in contemplation of the things big wages might do, the day wore on, and he was happy in his dreams. That same night Robert went to call on the "gaffer," Black Jock, and as he neared the door he met Mysie Maitland. "Where are ye goin', Rab?" she enquired shyly.
We've the summer before us, and the Lord's arm is not shortened that it cannot save. We'll make the best of it and have one more happy summer, let the worst come at the end of it." "But, Father," urged Jock, "will he turn every one out, do you think?" "Who can foretell the whimsies of a selfish man?" answered the Shepherd.
With the sudden start of a man roused from a daydream Gourlay turned from the green gate and entered the yard. Jock Gilmour, the "orra" man, was washing down the legs of a horse beside the trough. It was Gourlay's own cob, which he used for driving round the countryside. It was a black Gourlay "made a point" of driving with a black.
Jock received an absolutely affectionate welcome from his old friends, who made as much of his mother and sister for his sake, as they did of the lovely Lady Fordham for her husband's, finding them, moreover, much more easy to get on with. The bird was sitting in his cage And heard what he did say; He jumped upon the window sill, "'Tis time I was away." Ballad.
No day was too bleak for bell-ringer McLeod to climb the shaking ladder in the windy tower and play the music bells during the hour that Edinburgh dined. Bobby forgot to dine that day, first in his distracted search, and then in his joy of finding his master. For, all at once, in the very strangest place, in the very strangest way, Bobby came upon Auld Jock.
He'd see, when he was big enow, hoo the gude wife wad be shakin' her head when his faither wanted, maybe, an extra ounce or twa o' thick black. "We maun think o' the bairn, Jock," she'd be saying. "Put the price of it in the kist, Jock ye'll no be really needin' that."
You may do what you please, but you know very well you can't stop her neither you, nor Sir Tom, nor the old lady, nor one single living creature; and you know it," said Jock. He confronted Mr. Rushton with lowering brows, and with an angry sparkle in his deep-set eyes. Lucy was half proud of and half alarmed by her champion. "Oh hush, Jock!" she cried. "You must not speak; you are only a boy.
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