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"My puir advice canna be o' muckle avail to ye," said she; "ye ken best yersel; but I think, if he were asked, he wadna refuse the sma' favour." "I see you wish me to try him, Peggy," said he; "and I will try him." Away hastened the deacon to William M'Gillavry. He found him at home; and, as a deacon, was well received.
In the meantime, the deacon heard a conflict of words in an adjoining apartment, in the course of which several half-sentences met his ear. The wordy war was between William M'Gillavry and his wife.
The best, but only a few of the best, of these are "Donald Macdonald," "Donald M'Gillavry," "The Village of Balmanhapple," and the "Boy's Song."
Having opened the subject to him, he found that M'Gillavry was not inclined to become cautioner, unless he got put into his hands some security, that, in the event of his being called upon to pay the money, he might, in the end, be safe. This proposition was not expected by the deacon, who did not possess any portable security that he could give.
Every man that has a wife doesna 'glory' in being 'pecked by such a hen." "There's William M'Gillavry," said the sly wife, in a soft and unassuming tone; "he is independent o' his wife." "Do ye mean, Peggy, that I should get him to sign the bill?"
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