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The lad was happier where he was, even though he lived the life of a poor thrall." "Alas! so near, so very near!" murmured Roderic. "And I believed that the kelpie had carried off my bairns, while all the time it was but a few brief miles of sea that divided us! "My bairns? Ay, there were two. And the other the girl what of her? What of my sweet, blue-eyed Aasta?" "Aasta?
"Bairns," said she impressively, "you see the good of learning your Bible and your catechism when you are young; take an example from the minister." And with this the bairns were dismissed from their position; for the rest of the evening till bedtime it was expected that they were "to be seen and not heard," as was the way with bairns when their grandmother was young.
And the office of Baptism done, the Apostle bade bring two hanaps of tree dight with gold and precious stones, side and wide alike, and of like fashion, and gave them to the bairns and said: "Take these gifts in token that I have baptized you in the Church of the Holy Saviour." Which gifts they took joyfully and thanked him much, and betook them thence home in all joyance.
But then misfortune laid sair hands upon us a'. The wee schooner was wrecked on the rocks at Gairliestone. None was lost wi' her, sae it kicht ha' been worse though I dinna ken, I dinna ken! "We were a' sorry for the boy. It was no his fault the wee boat was lost; none blamed him for that. But, d'ye ken, he came and brocht himsel' and his wife and his bairns, as they came along, to live wi' us.
We'll just have to see what ails the sonsie doggie." He ran his hand down the parting in the thatch to discover if the spine had been injured. When he suddenly pinched the ball of a hind toe Bobby promptly resented it by jerking his head around and looking at him reproachfully. The bairns were indignant, too, but Geordie grinned cheerfully and said: "He's no' paralyzed, at ony rate."
"I dinna ken muckle about the law," answered Mrs. Howden; "but I ken, when we had a king, and a chancellor, and parliament men o' our ain, we could aye peeble them wi' stanes when they werena gude bairns But naebody's nails can reach the length o' Lunnon."
And you, who are you, my young knave, that dares to threaten his betters? By St. Olaf, but you are passing bold to speak of prisoning me in the walls wherein I was born. Away with you to your couch; this is no hour for bairns to be awake." Then turning to the lord of Colonsay he said: "Slip you out behind the young whelp, Sweyn, and bring me the knife you wot of.
"How can you ask me that, Mr. Butler? Will this stain, d'ye think, ever be forgotten, as lang as our heads are abune the grund? Will it not stick to us, and to our bairns, and to their very bairns' bairns? To hae been the child of an honest man, might hae been saying something for me and mine; but to be the sister of a O my God!"
'I may have given him a present of an old topcoat, she falters. 'He looked ill-happit. But that was after I made the bargain. 'Were there bairns in the cart? 'There might have been a bit lassie in the cart. 'I thought as much. What did you give her? I heard you in the pantry. 'Four shillings was what I got that chair for, replies my mother firmly.
"That's what they ca' ye, is't?" said Janet, looking motherly at him: " Sir Gibbie Galbraith?" Gibbie nodded vehemently. "It'll be some nickname the bairns hae gien him," said Janet to herself, but continued to gaze at him, in questioning doubt of her own solution.
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