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Updated: May 19, 2025
Fathers maun sometimes be fearsome to lass-bairns! 'Whan I'm feart at you, father, I'll be a gey bit on i' the ill gait! returned Kirsty, with a solemn face, looking straight into her father's eyes. 'Than it'll never be, or I maun hae a heap to blame mysel for.
"It'll be clearer when I get outside o' this rabbit," he returned, still not deigning to look at me. "But you did not seem to be startled when I spoke to you," I remarked in surprise. "What way should I? I never saw the man yet that I was feart o'. Forby, I kent you were there." "But, how could you know? I did not make a noise or display my presence in any way."
So I took to watchin' her an' tryin' to mak' friends wi her, but I never had much luck wi' her till one neet I was goin' home through th' snow, and I seed her afore tighten' th' drift wi' nowt but a thin shawl over her head; so I goes up behind her an' I says to her, steady and respecful, so as she wouldna be feart, I says: "'Lass, let me see thee home.
He had been feart o' sleepin' ower lang, ye see, an' sae had waukit ower sune. I was oot efter the fish mysel." "Ow, ay! I fired the gun. The puir man wod hae bursten himsel' gien I hadna." "Deil gien he had bursten himsel' the auld heelan' sholt!" exclaimed Mrs Catanach spitefully. "Ye sanna even sic words to my gran'father, Mrs Catanach," said Malcolm with rebuke. She laughed a strange laugh.
"The burnie wull rin, gran'mamma, and the buik 'ill bide," said Cosmo, perhaps not very clearly understanding himself. "Ye're gettin' on to be a man, noo," said his grandmother, heedless of the word of his defence, "an' ye maun learn to put awa' bairnly things. There's a heap depen'in' upo' ye, Cosmo. Ye'll be the fift o' the name i' the family, an' I'm feart ye may be the last.
"'Well, says th' lass at last, fair wearied out wi' grief, 'I'll go wi' thee, Phil, an' I'll do my best to please thee, but I wunnot promise to forget th' mon as has been true to me, an' has stood betwixt me an' th' world. "Then she turned round to me. "'Tim, she said to me, as if she wur haaf feart aye, feart o' him, an' me standin' by.
"Belle's wean! Man, Belle never had a wean. That bairn is Stockdale's; and I'm hearing," said he, "that Scaurdale's niece, the mother of it, sent word to her uncle to take away the bairn, for her man turned out an ill-doer, and it's like she would be feart.
'He will that, says I, and I saw the divots tumbling, and in he came assourying wi' two o' us, and us feart when he gied his great nicker o' a laugh, for fear he would be awakening the old folks, or rouse the dogs, although they kent him well enough, a rake like themselves." "Was he no' the auld devil?" says Dan with a laugh; "two o' ye, and the best-looking lassies in the countryside."
"I wad sair like to brak throu the buirds, father?" he said, going again to the laird. "Onything ye like, I tell ye, laddie! I'm growin' curious mysel'," he answered. "I'm feart for makin' ower muckle din, father." "Nae fear, nae fear! I haena a sair heid. The Lord be praist, that's a thing I'm seldom triblet wi'. Gang an' get ye what tools ye want, an' gang at it, an' dinna spare.
"Not a drop," I remarked. "That's a disappointment. I was kind o' feart ye wouldna, when I asked ye." "How so?" "Oh! ye don't look like a man that wasted your substance. More like a seller o' Bibles, or maybe a horse doctor." I laughed at the queer comparison, and he looked out at me from under his shaggy, red eyebrows. "Have a bite o' breakfast wi' me.
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