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"Does't come frae a guid place, or frae an ill?" said the laird, doubtingly. "It's saft an' kin'ly i' the fin' o' 't," returned Malcolm suggestively, rising and joining the laird on the top of the dune, and like him spreading himself out to the western air. The twilight had deepened, merging into such night as the summer in that region knows a sweet pale memory of the past day.

"'Now my childrens, say Wiesacajac, kin'ly, to those boy an' girl, 'you see, there's plenty of meat in your camp. Go now, cook an' eat. "So now those children go an' keel a swan an' skin it, an' get it ready for cook. By this time Wiesacajac he'll done make the fire. He'll not want to set woods on fire, so he'll build it by those big rocks which always stood by that lake.

Some went huntin' or fishin', some fiddled an' danced an' sung, while de others jus' lazed roun' de cabins. Marse had two of de slaves jus' to be fiddlers. Dey played for us an' kep' things perked up. How us could swing, an' step-'bout by dat old fiddle music always a-goin' on. Den old Marster come 'roun' wid his kin'ly smile an' jov'al sp'rits. When things went wrong he always knowed a way.

We hae been throuw ower muckle thegither to change to are anither. It was for his sake and the laddie's ain that I wantit him to come to me. I wantit a word wi' him aboot that powny o' his. You 'at's sae weel at hame i' the seddle yersel, mem, micht tak a kin'ly care o' what's aneth his! 'I will have no one interfere with my son. I am quite capable of teaching him his duty myself.

"You gennlemen kin'ly correc' me or bear out what Ah say. Leavin' aside all argument whether they is sech things as Voodoos, Ah guess any of you gennlemen from the South will remember Aunt Belle Agassiz and Tom Blue. Ah guess yo' mammies all done tole 'bout the African Voodoos, an' how ebery now an' den one of 'em crops up still.

"Yes, suh, an' thank yo' kin'ly, suh." Pitkin's bandaged head brought him little sympathy in fact, the general opinion seemed to be that Mulligan had not hit him quite hard enough to do the community any good. Certainly the scantling did not improve his temper, and Pitkin made life a burden to old Gabe and the two black stable hands.

And he beat vigorously on a pan to attract the attention of all hearers. "Gen'lemen. O-oh, gen'lemen!" he cried, at the top of his lungs. "Now fo' a great ole gander-pullin'! De only one we've had in dis settle-ment fo' t'ree year. Every gen'leman as craves to enter dis gander-pullin' will kin'ly ride up here and de-posit a quarter 'f a dollar.

His min' though cawpable a hantle mair nor a body wad think 'at didna ken him sae weel as I du, is certainly weyk though maybe the weykness lies mair i' the tongue than i' the brain o' 'im efter a' an' he's been sair frichtit wi' some guideship or ither; the upshot o 't a' bein', 'at he's unco timoursome, and ready to bursten himsel' rinnin' whan there's nane pursuin'. But he's the gentlest o' craturs a doonricht gentleman, mem, gien ever there was ane an' that kin'ly wi' a' cratur, baith man an' beast!

"Well, seh now Ah was steddyin' if yo' kin'ly grant yo' grace of pahdon, seh lahkly 'twould compliment Miss Cahline ef yo' was to git yo'se'f fitted to one a' them unnatchel limbs, seh. Yo' sho'ly go'n' a' pesteh huh rec'lections with that theh saggin' sleeve, Mahstah Majah." But this kindly meant proposal I felt compelled to reject.

"Eh, the bonnie lassie!" cried the shoemaker, without moving to enter; "I min' upo' her weel, though I believe I never saw her but ance! a fine, delicat pictur o' a lassie, that luikit up at ye as gien she made ye kin'ly welcome to onything she could gie or get for ye!" "Aweel, as I'm tellin ye," said the farmer, "she's awa'; and we'll see her no more till the earth gies up her deid!