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It was a cart the cottar used in the cultivation of his little holding, and his son who drove it, now nearly middle-aged, was likely to succeed to the hut and acres of Bogsheuch. Man and equipage, both well known to the soutar, had come with an invitation, more pressing than usual, that Maggie would pay them a visit of a few days.
James Greig, the kind cottar who sheltered them for the better part of three weeks, was but a poor man, and two additional inmates consumed the meal which he had laid in for himself and his wife, so that he was obligated to apply twice for the loan of some from a neighbour, which caused a suspicion to arise in that neighbour's mind; and he being loose-tongued, and a talking man, let out what he thought in a public at Kilmarnock, in presence of some one connected with the soldiers then quartered in the Dean-castle.
"It's maist aggravatin', Drumsheugh, 'at ye 'ill stand there girnin' at the prices, as if ye were a puir cottar body that hed selt her ae coo, and us twal meenutes late. Man, get intae yer kerridge; he 'ill no be fat that buys frae you, a'll wager." Mind ye, a'm no gain' tae shove ahint if the engine sticks, for I hae na time.
Otherwise there was nothing to do, and the men got drunk, gambled, and quarrelled. They were a sickly crew, for a junior subaltern is by custom saddled with the worst men. Cottar endured their rioting as long as he could, and then sent down-country for a dozen pairs of boxing-gloves. "I wouldn't blame you for fightin'," said he, "if you only knew how to use your hands; but you don't.
But I had not the heart to complain of this: on the contrary, I rejoiced thereat; for what made me want my scrutoire till another year, had carried blitheness into the hearth of the cottar, and made the widow's heart sing with joy; and I would have been an unnatural creature, had I not joined in the universal gladness, because plenty did abound.
This day have ye quenched seven smoking hearths see if the fire in your ain parlour burn the blyther for that. Ye have riven the back off seven cottar houses look if your ain roof-tree stand the faster. Ye may stable your stirks in the shealings at Derncleugh see that the hare does not couch on the hearth-stone at Ellangowan. Ride your ways, Godfrey Bertram what do ye glower after our folk for?
'Well, I do think the Chiswick Gardens is the nicest place in all the world, said Katie, leaning back in the cab, and meditating on her past enjoyment. 'They are very pretty very, said Lactimel Neverbend. 'I only wish every cottar had such a garden behind his cottage. I am sure we might manage it, if we set about it in the right way. 'What! as big as Chiswick? said Katie.
The thought of others besides himself began to get the upper hand of those birds of prey ravening in his head. Presents for the children, presents that father had made himself the picture made light and warmth in his mind. Drive ahead then. When it came to making the iron ribbons for the sleigh runners he had to go across to the smithy; and there stood a cottar at work roughing horseshoes.
"If Cottar only knew it, half the women in the station would give their eyes confound 'em! to have the young un in tow." "That accounts for Mrs. Elery sayin' I was workin' my nice new boy too hard," said a wing commander. "Oh, yes; and 'Why doesn't he come to the bandstand in the evenings? and 'Can't I get him to make up a four at tennis with the Hammon girls?" the adjutant snorted.
Among all the houses in a Scottish parish the homeliest and kindliest is the manse, for to its door some time in the year comes every inhabitant, from the laird to the cottar woman.
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