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"It wass next Sabbath that he came, and he wass a white man, giving out his text, 'Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb, and I wass thinking that the Lord had laid too great a burden on the lad, and that he could not be fit for such a work. It wass not more than ten minutes before he will be trying to tell us what he wass seeing, and will not hef the words.
"I hope it's a coot w'an, Tonald, for the notions that usually git into it might stop there with advantage. They are not much to boast of." "You shall see. Just you keep talkin' out now an' then as if I wass beside you, an' don't, whativer ye do, fire into the bushes." "Ferry coot," answered Dougall.
"That is goot luck for you, Tuncan, for if I wass your chudge I would be bound to condemn you you wass always so fond o' tellin' lies." "It iss true what you say, father. It iss a chip o' the old block that I am more's the peety." At this point the door of the prison opened, and Elspie was ushered in. "You here, father!" she exclaimed in evident surprise. "I had hoped to see Duncan alone."
"Oh, you must not think," said Mackenzie, with a certain loftiness of air even amidst his great perturbation and anxiety "you must not think I hef not foreseen all this. It wass some day or other Sheila will be sure to marry; and although I did not expect no, I did not expect that that she would marry a stranger and an Englishman, if it will please her that is enough.
"Eva," she beamed, "from long you have hear Mama speakink over Chonnie Schmitt. Und here wass!" Fortunately Johnnie's right hand was clean. So was his smiling face. "Oh, Mrs. Reisenberger, I thank you for the tel'phone-d'rect'ry," he began gratefully, as the two shook hands. Mrs. Reisenberger was staring at his rags. Also, she was now holding the baby well up and back.
Harvey swung out of his bunk to hear better; and amid the straining of the timbers and the wash of the waters the tune crooned and moaned on, like lee surf in a blind fog, till it ended with a wail. "Jimmy Christmas! Thet gives me the blue creevles," said Dan. "What in thunder is it?" "The song of Fin McCoul," said the cook, "when he wass going to Norway."
It was reather larger than a robbin, tho much it's form and action. the colours were a blueish brown on the back the wings and tale black, as wass a stripe above the croop 3/4 of an inch wide in front of the neck, and two others of the same colour passed from it's eyes back along the sides of the head. the top of the head, neck brest and belley and butts of the wing were of a fine yellowish brick reed. it was feeding on the buries of a species of shoemake or ash which grows common in country & which I first observed on 2d of this month.
It wass not long before I will be in the train, and all the night I held your letter in my hand, and when I wass afraid I will read 'Your father loves you more than efer, and I will say, 'This is my warrant. Oh yes, and God wass very good to me, and I did not want for friends all the way home.
If we had even to take to the bush, Archie could run with you; an' when he gets tired, Fergus and I would think no more o' you than a grasshopper." "Iss it carryin' him you will be taalkin' of?" said Fergus. "Ay, ay! I would be forgettin' that he wass on my back if I had him there." As he spoke, the Indian returned to the camp with the cat-like tread so characteristic of the Red-man.
Then he turned to Bryde "You will be a stronger man than your father, and he wass a fine man, but you would kill a man too. Yes, but we will not be talking of killing when it's the lassies you will be thinking about, and I'm hearing the southern leddy is very chief with you," and he sniggered and went out. "God's blood," said Hugh in a white rage, "do you let any drunken rogue blackguard a lady?"
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