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He that had four hundred swords at his whistle, I have seen, with these eyes of mine, buying butter in the market-place, and taking it home in a kale-leaf. This is not only a pain but a disgrace to us of his family and clan. There are the bairns forby, the children and the hope of Appin, that must be learned their letters and how to hold a sword, in that far country.
"I hae whiles thoucht mysel', sir," said Malcolm, "it was gey strange like to hae a wuman o' the mak o' Mistress Catanach sittin' at the receipt o' bairns, like the gatekeeper o' the ither wan', wi' the hasp o' 't in her han': it doesna promise ower weel for them 'at she lats in.
"What do you think of it all, Mother?" he inquired. "Bairns are a blessing," said the old lady tartly, "I told you so." "That's not the end, is it?" asked one of the boys in a tone of dismay, for the Doctor had paused here. "Yes, it is," said he. "But couldn't you make a little more end?" asked Deordie, "to tell us what became of them all?" "I don't see what there is to tell," said the Doctor.
You are a wise man manage it your ain gate but forget not our present straits." The citizen made his obeisance, and withdrew. "And now, bairns," said the king, "what do you look upon each other for and what have you got to ask of your dear dad and gossip?"
I asked, daunted, but still curious. "Who is he?" cried Alan. "Well, and I'll tell you that. When the men of the clans were broken at Culloden, and the good cause went down, and the horses rode over the fetlocks in the best blood of the north, Ardshiel had to flee like a poor deer upon the mountains he and his lady and his bairns.
But to ken that ane's purpose is right, and to make their heart strong, is the way to get through the warst day's darg. The bairns' rime says, the warst blast of the borrowing days* couldna kill the three silly poor hog-lams.
Nature is a good mother, and sees well to the clothing of her many bairns birds with smoothly imbricated feathers, beetles with shining jackets, and bears with shaggy furs. In the tropical south, where the sun warms like a fire, they are allowed to go thinly clad; but in the snowy northland she takes care to clothe warmly.
She told him Gatty's case, and he instantly promised to see that artist's pictures, particularly an "awfu' bonny ane;" the hero of which she described as an English minister blessing the bairns with one hand, and giving orders to kill the puir Scoetch with the other. "C'est e'gal," said Christie in Scotch, "it's awfu' bonny." Gatty reached home late; his mother had retired to rest.
Whether he would have said more or not she could not tell. There was no time for more, for the bairns came in with their mother from the Sunday-school, and quiet was at an end for the moment. It was a long time before the subject was touched upon between them again, and it was he who spoke first. The Langdens had stayed ten days in Gershom.
Down the centre of the kirk ran a long table, covered with pure white linen, bleached in the June showers and wonderfully ironed, whereon a stain must not be found, for along that table would pass the holy bread and wine. Across the aisle on either side, the pews were filled with stalwart men, solemn beyond their wonted gravity, and kindly women in simple finery, and rosy-cheeked bairns.
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