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To Thomas's words Annie's only reply was a fixed gaze, which he answered thus, resuming his last words: "Ay, lassie, little ye ken aboot watchin' and prayin'. Whan it pleased the Lord to call me, I was stan'in' my lane i' the mids' o' a peat-moss, luikin' wast, whaur the sun had left a reid licht ahin him, as gin he had jist brunt oot o' the lift, an' hadna gane doon ava.
'He spak to me first. 'Whaur saw ye him? 'At The Boar's Heid. 'And what richt had ye to gang stan'in' aboot? Ye oucht to ha' gane in at ance. 'But ye budena stop an' mak' ae fule mair. 'Isna that ca'in' names, grannie? ''Deed, laddie, I doobt ye hae me there. But what said the fallow Lumley to ye? 'He cast up to me that my grandfather was naething but a blin' piper. 'And what said ye?
"Can't you see that if you cave in now, after stan'in' out nine hours" and he looked at a silver watch with a brass chain, and stroked his goatee "nine hours and twenty-seven minutes that you've made jest rumpus enough so as't he won't dare to foreclose on you, for fear they'll say you went back on a trade.
Lord bless an' save us! it's Larry himself, him that I thought in his grave this fifteen year! God bless us, it's dramin' I am it can't be true! Dan, d'ye hear that? Good gracious, what's the man thinkin' of, stan'in' there, lookin' about him, the same as if he never heard a thing at all. Larry isn't dead at all, an' he's afther writin' to us from America." "Well, to be sure," cried Mrs. Kinsella.
Dey sey dat wuz de fust time ole missis cry when she find de letter, an' dat she sut'n'y did cry over it, pintedly. "Well, seh, Miss Anne she walks right up de steps, mos' up to ole missis stan'in' dyar on de poach, an' jes' falls right down mos' to her, on her knees fust, an' den flat on her face right on de flo', ketchin' at ole missis' dress wid her two han's so.
'F y' ever rid on that seddle once, y' would n' try it ag'in, very spry, not 'f y' c'd haalp y'rsaalf. "I tried it, darned 'f I sot daown f'r th' nex' week, eat all my victuals stan'in'. I sh'd like t' hev them things wal enough to heng up 'n the stable; 'f y' want t' trade some day, fetch 'em along daown."
"Standing still and taking it, I suppose," said Iola, who had been quietly listening to and enjoying the conversation. "Yes, an' I'd ketch myself stan'in' still an' takin' it," was John's plucky response. "Well, you oughter, ef you's mean enough to wote dat ticket ter put me back inter slavery," was Aunt Linda's parting shot. "Robby," she continued, "you 'member Miss Nancy's Jinnie?"
But whan I luikit up, what sud I see but a wee leddy, in a goon the colour o' a clood that's takin' nae pairt i' the sunset, but jist lookin' on like, stan'in afore the buik-shelves i' the further en' o' the room. Noo I'm terrible lang-sichtit, and I had pitten the buiks i' that pairt a' richt already wi' my ain han' and I saw her put her han' upon a buik that was no fit for her.
"But if there had been a God, as people say, he would ha' made me fit to gi'e you a job, i'stead o' stan'in' here as you see me, with ne'er a turn o' work to do for myself!" "I'll work my hardest to pay you back your sixpence," said Clare. "Nay, nay, lad! Don't you trouble about that. I ha' got two or three more i' my pocket, thank God!"
'F y' ever rid on that seddle once, y' would n' try it ag'in, very spry, not 'f y' c'd haalp y'rsaalf. "I tried it, darned 'f I sot daown f'r th' nex' week, eat all my victuals stan'in'. I sh'd like t' hev them things wal enough to heng up 'n the stable; 'f y' want t' trade some day, fetch 'em along daown."