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David smoked steadily a few minutes ere he replied: "He's eat and drank and knelt wi' us, Archie, and it's nane o' our duty to judge him." When Archie spoke again it was of other matters. "Fayther, I'm sore troubled wi' MacAllister's accounts; what wi' the sheep bills and the timber and the kelp, things look in a mess like.
Just then a toddling small rustic stopped in front of Evan, and set up a howl for his 'fayther. Evan lifted him high to look over people's heads, and discover his wandering parent. The urchin, when he had settled to his novel position, surveyed the field, and shouting, 'Fayther, fayther! here I bes on top of a gentleman! made lusty signs, which attracted not his father alone.
I didn't tarry long in her house, for I didn't want to be seen by any as knowed me; but I went to many of the towns round about to see if I could hear anything about fayther, but it were no good; so I went back to Liverpool arter I'd been off about ten days." Samuel then gave them an account of the sad tidings that awaited his return, and then added,
Write a bit o' a note to the lady yonder at Elverston; an' though Brice be a wild fellah, and 'appen not ower good sometimes, he likes me, an' I'll make him take it. Fayther will be grindin' at mill to-morrow. Coom ye here about one o'clock that's if ye see the mill-sails a-turnin' and me and Brice will meet ye here. Bring that old lass wi' ye.
My fayther and mother were godly people, and taught me to love the Lord by precept and example too. I worked in the pit till I were about twenty; when one day, as my butty and me was getting coal a long way off from the shaft, the prop nearest me began to crack, and I knowed as the roof were falling in. I sung out to him, but it were too late.
"But, mother," said her son, "what am I to tell Betty?" "Why, just tell her all you've heard, and how you were under the couch- chair, and how I promised myself as I wouldn't split. Tell her she must make no din about it, but just keep her fayther out of the way. He may go off to his brother Dick's, and come home in the morn, and who's to say as he's heard anything about the scratching."
At last, about midnight, three men were brought up and laid on the bank, all apparently lifeless. "Oh, there's fayther!" "Oh, there's Thomas!" burst from the lips of Betty and her mother. "Oh, take him home, take him home, live or dead," entreated Betty. He was placed accordingly on a shutter, and carried by four men to his home.
On reaching his home he followed his groom to the stable, and said, quietly: "You are an old family servant, but you must now give me positive assurance that I can trust you. There is a riot in the city, and there is no telling what house will be safe. Will you mount guard night and day in my absence?" "Faix, sur, I will. Oi'll sarve ye as I did yer fayther afore ye."
"Then I told him hoo I longed to be a minister, and hoo fayther and the rest had planned to send me to Aberdeen this vera year, and hoo there was still L50 which you wanted me to take, and he never said a word, but just let me go blethering and blundering through the story, till I felt like I was the maist selfish and foolish o' mortals.
"Git away wid ye," cried Mick, giving him a dig in his ribs, and grinning the while all over his face at the recollection of something about which I might have told a tale if I had liked, before proceeding to go on with his story of the warm reception we had met with. "Well, thin, Tom's fayther wor a-sottin' in the armchair, ez I wor a- sayin' whin you put me off me coorse, Larry, ye baste.
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