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As they took leave of each other a little later than they had intended, Mrs. Bremner cast a glance at the gathering clouds, and said, 'I doobt, lassie, it's gaein to ding on afore the nicht! I wuss we war hame the twa o' 's! Gien it cam on to snaw and blaw baith, we micht hae ill winnin there! 'Noucht's to fear, auntie, returned Phemy. 'It's a heap ower warm to snaw.
Alarmed lest he should struggle too soon, Bremner made a sudden grasp and caught the tooth. A wrench followed; a yell was the result, and the pincers slipped! This was fortunate, for he had caught the wrong tooth. "Now be aisy, boy," said Ned O'Connor, whose sympathies were easily roused. "Once more," said Bremner, as the unhappy man opened his mouth.
"D'ye think so?" said Bremner; "it seems to me so calm that I would think a storm a'most impossible. But the fish never tell lies." "True. You got no fish to-day, I believe?" said Logan. "Not a nibble," replied the other.
"That's like you," cried Bremner, who, being one of the principal masons, had to attend chiefly to the digging out of the foundation-pit of the building, and knew that his tools could not be sharpened unless the forge fire could be lighted. "Suppose you hammer a nail red-hot," suggested one of the men, who was disposed to make game of the smith.
With the advent of Monday morning, the Golden Crescent Trading Company, in charge of George Bremner, handyman, store-clerk, bookkeeper, buyer and general superintendent, opened its doors for business. I was not overburdened with customers, for which I was not sorry, as I had lots to do fixing the prices of my stock and setting it to rights.
Here they are," said Bremner, moving about actively in his preparations, as if he enjoyed such work uncommonly. By this time the men had assembled round the pair, and almost forgot the storm in the interest of the moment. "Hold him, two of you," said Bremner, when his victim was seated submissively on a cask. "You don't need to hold me," said Forsyth, in a gentle tone. "Don't we!" said Bremner.
Frequently during that night, after some such dream, Bremner would get up and descend to the mortar-gallery to see that all was right there.
"I say, we're gittin' a belly-full of it," observed Forsyth, with a rueful look "I hope nobody's goin' to give us another!" "It'll create a rebellion," said Bremner, "if ye go on like that" "It'll bring my bellows down on the head o' the next man that speaks!" cried Ruby, with indignation. "Don't you hear the bell, there?" cried the foreman down the hatchway.
"What are you two growling at?" said Ruby, who sat on one of the beams at the other side. "At our luck, Ruby," said Joe. "Ha! was that a nibble?" "A naddock!" sneered Watt; "mair like a bit o' tangle than eh! losh me! it is a fish " "Well done, Joe!" cried Bremner, from the doorway above, as a large rock-cod was drawn to the surface of the water. "Stay, it's too large to pull up with the line.
Selkirk was the principal builder, and ultimately laid every stone of the lighthouse with his own hand. He was a sedate, quiet man, but full of energy and perseverance. When the stones were landed faster than they could be built into their places, he and Bremner, as well as some of the other builders, used to work on until the rising tide reached their waists.
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