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The harvest was got through and the grain housed as successfully as the hay had been before Davie, lank and stooping, crept out over the fields of Ythan. It was Sunday afternoon again when Katie and he went slowly down the brae toward the cherry-trees. Their grandfather and grandmother looked after them with loving eyes.
Wude cester is no doubt Outchester, and other doubtful instances might easily be recognised by local antiquaries, though they may readily escape the general archæologist. In one case at least that of Othonæ in Essex town, site, and name have all disappeared together. Bæda calls it Ythan ceaster, and in his time it was the seat of a monastery founded by St.
The gloom and sternness which sometimes made people shrink from coming in contact with her husband was never seen in her. The eldest of their two sons was almost a man when they came to live at Ythan Brae. He was a quiet, well-doing lad, reserved like his father, but pleasant-spoken and friendly like his mother.
How it happened, Ben hardly knew, but in a little while they found themselves in Seth Fairweather's boat, and were paddling up the river, out and in among the shadows, past the open fields and the cedar swamp to the point where the Ythan Burn fell into the Beaver.
He asked nothing better for his own share of profit than a chance to show what he could do with it on some of the smooth fields of Ythan. If he had been aware of Mr Fleming's distaste for all things untried, or "new-fangled," it is likely he would have carried his request elsewhere.
"He is not a fool, Davie; and surely he's not a rogue altogether. But I'm not caring for him; I'm only thinking of grandfather." And though Katie did not say it, she was thinking that her grandfather's silence and gloom might do him more harm than even the loss of half of Ythan.
The Ythan burn rippled softly through it, and with a free use of its limpid waters, and a judicious use of the limited treasure of ice which they had secured during the last winter months, Katie made such butter as bade fair to win her a reputation which might in course of time rival that of her grandmother.
Do you no' mind: `Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him. What is Ythan, and what are any of us to grandfather, in comparison to having the Lord Himself?" said Katie, with rising colour and shining eyes. "Well, it is no' me that say it. There are plenty of folk in Gershom just waiting to see how it will turn to see which is going to beat the Lord or or the other side.
"Providence is ay kind," said grannie softly, and grandfather's assent, though silent as usual, was pleased and earnest, and he was "in better heart" than he had been for a while. Davie had some good hard work in other hay-fields in return for the help they had had at Ythan, and it was done gratefully and heartily.
Seldom had there been a more favourable spring for the getting in of the crops, and never even at Ythan Brae had the spring work been done better, or in better time. Davie was far enough from being perfect yet in many respects, and his grandmother did not consider it her duty, or for his good, to let him forget his faults.
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