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Rose is more like her mother in looks, but she doesna 'mind me of her mother in her ways as her sister does, because, I suppose, of the difference that the age and the country make on all that are brought up in them. There is something wanting in all the young people of the present day, that well brought up bairns used to have in mine. Miss Graeme has it, and her sister hasna.

So, if ye like, Jerry here'll make up a bunk to ye, and I'll see that your mother, puir soul, doesna want for onything. Sandy Ericson was a good man, as everybody kens, and his widow maun be cared for." Now this unexpected offer of employment was a thing that I had reason to be very grateful for, as I did not neglect to show.

Fowk nae doobt has baith; but I think whiles 'at the Lord gies a grainy mair o' the inside licht to mak' up for the loss o' the ootside; and weel I wat it doesna want muckle to do that." "But ye dinna ken what it is," objected Annie, with unnecessary persistency in the truth. "Do ye tell me that again?" returned Tibbie, harshly. "Ye'll anger me, bairn.

"O, my dear young leddy, think on your grandmother; think on the danger and the difficulty," added Jenny; "for he's kept under close confinement till Claverhouse comes up in the morning, and if he doesna gie him full satisfaction, Tam Halliday says there will be brief wark wi' him Kneel down mak ready present fire just as they did wi' auld deaf John Macbriar, that never understood a single question they pat till him, and sae lost his life for lack o' hearing."

"Ye have nae doubt heard, my leddy," replied the stranger, "that she isna what the world considers to be a likely lass though, take her as she is, and ye might find a hantle worse wives than poor Meg would make; and, as to her features, I may say that she looks much the same as I do; and if she doesna appear better, she at least doesna look ony waur."

Sal, you needna ask me, I'm just a doited auld stock that never set foot in a club, so it's little I ken about glory. But I may tell you if you bide in London and canna become member of a club, the best you can do is to tie a rope round your neck and slip out of the world. What use are they? Oh, they're terrible useful. You see it doesna do for a man in London to eat his dinner in his lodgings.

I'd rather have my father doing time for stealing, than have him a darned, hide-bound old hypocrite that will lie a man into the pen, and then go around and pull a long face and call himself a Christian!" "My father doesna lie! And he is not a hypocrite either.

"I'd a good hame," said the Highlander, with a decent pride in his tone. "It was a strict hame I've no cause now, to deceive mysel', and I'm thinking it was a wee bit ower strict but it was a good hame. I left it, man I ran away." The glittering blue eyes turned sharply on the lad, and he went on: "A body doesna care to turn his byeganes oot for every fool to pick at.

"My master's frae hame, and my commission doesna extend to opening the gate to strangers on night visits." "But I'm nae stranger, Dick," replied the other. "I served the Cockburns before ye was born, and hae wandered many a weary step, in the midst o' this storm, to speak a word to the ear o' my Leddie. The time o' my visit is a good sign o' the importance o' my counsel.

"She'll speak her mind and fear naebody She doesna value a Cawmil mair as a Cowan, and ye may tell MacCallum More that Allan Iverach said sae It's a far cry to Lochow."* * Lochow and the adjacent districts formed the original seat of the * Campbells. The expression of a "far cry to Lochow" was proverbial. Mr.